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0 pointsfauigerzigerk1mo ago0 comments

If you want a machine (or in fact another human) to do something for you, there are two tasks you cannot delegate to them:

a) Specify what you want them to do.

b) Check if the result meets your expectations.

Does your current job include neither a nor b?

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p1esk1mo ago

A/B happen at different abstractions levels. My abstraction level will be automated. My manager’s level will probably last another year or so.

fauigerzigerkOP1mo ago

So your assumption is that it will ultimately be the users of software themselves who will throw some every day language at an AI and it will reliably generate something that meets those users' intuitive expectations?

p1esk1mo ago

Yes, it will be at least as reliable as an average software engineer at an average company (probably more reliable than that), or at least as reliable as a self-driving car where a user says get me to this address, and the car does it better (statistically) than an average human driver.

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0 pointsfauigerzigerk1mo ago0 comments

If you want a machine (or in fact another human) to do something for you, there are two tasks you cannot delegate to them:

a) Specify what you want them to do.

b) Check if the result meets your expectations.

Does your current job include neither a nor b?

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p1esk1mo ago

A/B happen at different abstractions levels. My abstraction level will be automated. My manager’s level will probably last another year or so.

fauigerzigerkOP1mo ago

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