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> This is the worst LLMs will ever be. Not outsourcing critical thinking to LLM will be seen as a liability in the not so distant future. Just a year or two ago almost no one even took LLM seriously for coding. Now the status quo has moved for also critical thinking, and we hear comments like this. LLM's chances of making a mistake will be orders of magnitude lowers than humans. Slowly learn to let the wheel go. AI will be much better at holding and controlling it.

If that's true, you're fucked. Because then what good are you for? How long do you think they'll pay you to be useless meat-in-the-middle?

Not outsourcing your critical thinking means trying to preserve a scrap of value-add for having you around.

> "We should NEVER outsource number crunching to calculators. They are not 100% reliable and we can make mistakes when inputting the data." Someone in 1920's probably. I know it's a metaphor, and like all metaphors can't be compared 1-1. But it's to make a point how it illustrates my argument above.

That's a dumb analogy. Automating one activity cannot be extrapolated justify automating all the activities, including some of the most human ones.

parent palmotea 2 months ago

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