alt Hacker NewsDealing with the alien coworkers has always been the job, that is what software is to most people.
Software developers get paid big money because they can speak alien, the only thing that is changing is the dialect.
Dealing with the alien coworkers has always been the job, that is what software is to most people.
Software developers get paid big money because they can speak alien, the only thing that is changing is the dialect.
Nope, I tried my best to be really detailed and already knew these replies would come flooding.
I'm an engineers engineer: I get the job isn't LOC but being able to communicate and translate meatspace into composable and robust sustems.
So when I mean an alien when I say an alien.
Not human.
Not in the cute "oh that guy just hears what everyone else hears and somehow interprets it entirely differently like he's from a different planet" alien way, but in the, "it is a different definition of intelligence derived from lacking wetware" alien way.
Intelligence is such multidimensional concept that all of humanity as varied as we are, can fit in a part of the space that has no overlap with an LLM.
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Now none of that is saying it can't be incredibly useful, but 99% of the misuse and misunderstanding of LLMs stems from humans refusing to internalize that a form of intelligence can exist that uses their language but doesn't occupy the same "space" of thinking that we all operate in, no matter how weird or unqiue we think we are.