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Re:Outsourcing Thinking by knollimar on Saturday January 31, 2026 @09:32PM (#46843070)
It's funny, I'm working on trying to get LLMs to place electrical devices, and it silently developed opinions that my switches above countertops should be at 4 feet and not the 3'10 I'm asking for (the top cannot be above 4')
Re:Outsourcing Thinking by noduerme on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:34PM (#46843640)
That's quite funny, and almost astonishing, because I'm not an architect, and that scenario just came out of my head randomly as I wrote it. It seemed like something an architect friend of mine who passed away recently, and was a big fan of Douglas Adams, would have joked about. Maybe I just channeled him from the afterlife, and maybe he's also laughing about it.
Re:Outsourcing Thinking by knollimar on Sunday February 01, 2026 @10:40AM (#46846917)
They tend to develop silent opinions based on rules of thumb, so it's not actually reasoning that my symbol is to the center not the top.

I fear for trying to get it to unlearn code from the last building code cycle when there's changes