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uncivilizedtoday at 5:47 PM3 repliesview on HN

In your examples, you didn’t “make” anything. The person whose work trained the LLM made the work. The landscaper made the lawn. I don’t know how it’s possible to take pride in doing nothing.

I can hire a maid to make my bed for me and tell her how exactly to fluff my pillows and duvet but I would take no pride in that.


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mark242today at 6:04 PM

Your compiler created the bytecode that the CPU runs. How can you take pride in writing your Rust code?

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stronglikedantoday at 6:44 PM

> I don’t know how it’s possible to take pride in doing nothing.

Aw, now I feel sad for you. It's definitely possible, and I do it every weekend.

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planbtoday at 5:52 PM

Let’s not argue about the meaning of “making”, but that’s a very limited view of how value is created. So in your view the producer or even the director of a movie cannot take pride in it because the actors are the ones doing the work?

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