[philipswood]

> Consider what happens when you build software professionally. You talk to stakeholders who do not know what they want and cannot articulate their requirements precisely. You decompose vague problem statements into testable specifications. You make tradeoffs between latency and consistency, between flexibility and simplicity, between building and buying. You model domains deeply enough to know which edge cases will actually occur and which are theoretical. You design verification strategies that cover the behaviour space. You maintain systems over years as requirements shift.

I'm not sure why he thinks current LLM technologies (with better training) won't be able to do more and more of this as time passes.

[bwestergard]

Meaning and thought are social all the way down.

To genuinely "talk to stakeholders" requires being part of their social world. To be part of their social world you have to have had a social past - to have been a vulnerable child, to have experienced frustration and joy. Efforts to decouple human development from human cognition betray a fundamental misunderstanding.

[jdsully]

But surely you see the core LLM innovation is that computers can now TALK to you.