Re:The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threat...
by sangnoir on Friday November 15, 2024 @03:03PM
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HN nerds[1] talking about doctors reminds me a lot about bean-counters talking about IT and software.
> Plenty of hackers who think they can do it better than the doctors right here on HN
Of course they would, it's easy to come up with solutions that are simple and wrong, when one has no point of reference. Hackers understand balancing trade-offs in programming languages or architectures, but can't imagine other fields being nuanced or even more complex. If an LLM cant tell you when to use a monorepo, then it far from telling you when a specific drug dosage is right for a patients set of circumstances.
> Plenty of hackers who think they can do it better than the doctors right here on HN
Of course they would, it's easy to come up with solutions that are simple and wrong, when one has no point of reference. Hackers understand balancing trade-offs in programming languages or architectures, but can't imagine other fields being nuanced or even more complex. If an LLM cant tell you when to use a monorepo, then it far from telling you when a specific drug dosage is right for a patients set of circumstances.
1. I can use that word, I am one too.