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Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by danielmarkbruce on Monday August 04, 2025 @02:15PM (#44789546)
An LLM is not a tool to allow you to add a layer of abstraction. It's a worker.
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Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by didericis on Monday August 04, 2025 @07:41PM (#44792637)
It works by translating language abstractions to code.

The probability of plain english being correctly translated to code depends on existing code and documented abstractions describing lower level functionality.

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Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by danielmarkbruce on Sunday August 10, 2025 @08:16PM (#44859640)
Not in any consistent or deterministic way, which is why it can't be used as a layer of abstraction.

Humans, for example, aren't a layer of abstraction. Having a team of engineers doesn't enable you to say "build X" and just forget about it.

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