Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat
by elendilm on Sunday May 31, 2026 @03:01AM
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Yes. The author stumbled on the p vs np problem but with humans. Verification is easy. Solving is the millennium prize question.
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Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat
by Npovview on Sunday May 31, 2026 @09:18AM
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Agreed. But there is a new dynamic coming to place. Who can execute faster now that we have AIs? I think the combination of (Good SWE using AIs) collaborating with (Domain Expert using AIs) is the winning team. Things are accelerating on all fronts, the frontier may be jagged but AIs is making progress on all capabilites.
Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat
by dapperdrake on Sunday May 31, 2026 @12:41PM
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Additional iterations are valuable, if and only if we learn from additional iterations. Otherwise we are just spinning our wheels.
Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat
by __MatrixMan__ on Sunday May 31, 2026 @10:52AM
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I agree that it has some resemblance, but the striking thing about NP-complete problems is that an efficient solution to any of them is an efficient solution to all of them, which makes it worth trying exceptionally hard to find one.
It could be that whatever lackluster expertise you can squeeze out of an LLM is good enough to discourage investment in the real thing since unlike NP-complete problems, expertise isn't generalizable.