One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W…
they’re also not equivalent because LLMs pretense is to remove the human from the equation, essentially saying that we don’t need that knowledge anymore. But people still do have that knowledge. Those telephone systems still work because someone knows how each part works. That will never be true for an LLM.
There is a fundamental difference this post is pretending doesn’t exist.
Trusting the abstractions of compilers and fundamental widely used libraries is not a problem because they are deterministic and battle tested.
LLMs do not add a layer of abstraction. They produce code at the existing layer of abstraction.
they’re also not equivalent because LLMs pretense is to remove the human from the equation, essentially saying that we don’t need that knowledge anymore. But people still do have that knowledge. Those telephone systems still work because someone knows how each part works. That will never be true for an LLM.