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jagged-chisel 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI ...

Computers are a lever, a force multiplier. If your process is shit, you can shit faster with a computer.

LLMs are another force multiplier. If your computerized process is a disaster … well, you said it and you’re right.

ben_w 5 months ago [–]

When I was young, the quote was still:

  To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer.

jagged-chisel 5 months ago | [–]

That quote was on my mind as I wrote that message. I think I saw it as a child but some time after I had begun writing BASIC code. It took a moment’s thought at the time, but I soon came to realize its truth.

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