alt Hacker NewsAnd when an LLM runs up costs for a small company by getting them to lease a bunch of infrastructure they don't need, who can they sue? A contractor or advisor you can't hold liable is just a liability.
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ben_w • yesterday at 4:07 PM
Same person they'd sue if they used any other power tool themselves and it didn't work out right.
Plus, this is software "Engineering" we're talking about, which famously gets scare quotes in comparison to all the other forms of engineering because unlike them we don't have as standard things like professional liability insurance to cover serious professional errors of judgment the way someone who signs off on a bridge that collapses would have.
> And when an LLM runs up costs for a small company by getting them to lease a bunch of infrastructure they don't need, who can they sue?
This question is completely disconnected from reality. If you try to sue a human for proposing something more complex than what you need you will waste a lot of money and then lose the lawsuit.
Also the annual cost of too much small company infrastructure is less than the cost of even a single good human engineer.