kykeonaut

Isn't scanning also a form of copyright infringement? You are making a digital copy of a book, which is the same thing as downloading a book from the internet...

In what world is 20,179 dead children the lesser of two evils?

> I have no domain expertise that another Sr. engineer steering an LLM cannot match.

Sounds like the Dunning-Kruger effect to me. "I can do this with LLMs, therefore any Sr. engineer can do this with LLMs"

The weights Mason, what do they mean!?

> Those questions that it will no longer occur to you to ask (not just of the robot, but of yourself) might be the most pertinent ones!

That is true, but then again also with google. You could see why some people want to go back to the "read the book" era where you didn't have google to query anything and had to make the real questions.

I am surprised at the amount of comments that dismiss coding as just means to an end. Yes, every skill at the end of the day is a means to an end, but mastery of those skills is at the end what drives the vision. To know where you are going you need to know where you have been.

it starts to sound scarily close to opioid addiction

No no, let him deploy to production.