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ankit219yesterday at 10:57 PM1 replyview on HN

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I address that in part right there itself. Programming has parts like chess (ie bounded) which is what people assume to be actual work. Understanding future requiremnts / stakeholder incentives is part of the work which LLMs dont do well.

> many domains are chess-like in their technical core but become poker-like in their operational context.

This applies to programming too.


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notnullorvoidyesterday at 11:59 PM

My bad, re-read that part and it's definitely clear. Probably was skimming by the time I got to the section and didn't parse it.