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aogailitoday at 4:27 PM1 replyview on HN

"Engineering is the practical science of designing, building, and testing structures, machines, systems, and processes to solve real-world problems"

Did this system go through: design? yes, building: yes, testing: yes, is it a system: yes, does it solve real-world problem: yes.

but markdowns and LLMs with their fuzzy probabilistic feelings are beneath you i assume? you can ignore the fact that we have intelligence deployed to the billions, understand english, follow instructions..yeah, in case you missed, machines can now understand english better than you and me.


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Sharlintoday at 5:30 PM

You conveniently omitted the critical word: science. Not nearly everything that involves design and those others is engineering. You know, the whole "necessary but not sufficient" thing in logic? Engineering is almost diametrically opposite to "vibing", and trying to call prompting-based LLM coding "engineering" is a massive insult against all real engineers who know that vibing can get people maimed or killed.

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