Yep! I have put a bit of thought into why this still matters and I'm not attempting to plug a twitter thread but I laid out a lot of my logic for why we should still bother to know this stuff here; https://twitter.com/RobinLord8/status/1647903067013013505?t=...
Essentially I think the fact that LLMs can do some of this makes it MORE valuable to know how to read it. That's because we're less likely to get into frustrating situations where we know the answer but are off by a character but simultaneously because LLMs can't understand the tables like we can it is valuable for us to be able to direct the investigation/ check the results
Essentially I think the fact that LLMs can do some of this makes it MORE valuable to know how to read it. That's because we're less likely to get into frustrating situations where we know the answer but are off by a character but simultaneously because LLMs can't understand the tables like we can it is valuable for us to be able to direct the investigation/ check the results