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mgdevyesterday at 10:17 PM3 repliesview on HN

If we zoom out far enough, and start to put more and more under the execution umbrella of AI, what we're actually describing here is... product development.

You are constructing the set of context, policies, directed attention toward some intentional end, same as it ever was. The difference is you need fewer meat bags to do it, even as your projects get larger and larger.

To me this is wholly encouraging.

Some projects will remain outside what models are capable of, and your role as a human will be to stitch many smaller projects together into the whole. As models grow more capable, that stitching will still happen - just as larger levels.

But as long as humans have imagination, there will always be a role for the human in the process: as the orchestrator of will, and ultimate fitness function for his own creations.


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pymanyesterday at 11:35 PM

That does sound a lot like the role of a software architect. You're setting the direction, defining the constraints, making trade-offs, and stitching different parts together into a working system

somewhereoutthyesterday at 11:28 PM

> for his own creations.

for their own creations is grammatically valid, and would avoid accusations of sexism!

GuinansEyebrowsyesterday at 11:34 PM

i just hope that, along with imagination, humans can have an economy that supports this shift.