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rr808yesterday at 10:15 PM1 replyview on HN

Thanks yes of course you're right, still frustrating. I'm nearing retirement so not really worried about job loss, just want to make use of the tools.


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xpeyesterday at 11:59 PM

I get that. I probably could have been much more succinct by saying this: We can consciously act in ways that reduce the frustration level even if the environment itself doesn't change. It usually takes time and patience, but not always. Sometimes a particular mindset shift is sufficient to make a frustration completely vanish almost immediately.

Some examples from my experience: (1) Many particular frustrations with LLMs vanish the more I learn about their internals. (2) Frustration with the cacophony of various RAG/graph-database tooling vanishes once I realize that there is an entire slice of VC money chasing these problems precisely because it is uncertain: the victors are not pre-ordained and ... [insert bad joke about vectors here]