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otabdeveloper4today at 8:31 AM4 repliesview on HN

AI is not a tool, it is an oracle.

Prompting isn't a skill, and praying that the next prompt finally spits out something decent is not a business strategy.


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classifiedtoday at 8:52 AM

Seeing how many successful businesses are a product of pure luck, using an oracle to roll the dice is not significantly different.

rob74today at 9:41 AM

Do you remember the times when "cargo cult programming" was something negative? Now we're all writing incantations to the great AI, hoping that it will drop a useful nugget of knowledge in our lap...

tonyhart7today at 9:28 AM

"praying that the next prompt finally spits out something decent is not a business strategy."

well you just describing an chatgpt is, one of the most fastest growing user acquisition user base in history

as much as I agree with your statement but the real world doesn't respect that

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danielblntoday at 1:37 PM

Hot takes from 2023, great. Work with AIs has changed since then, maybe catch up? Look up how agentic systems work, how to keep them on task, how they can validate their work etc. Or don't.