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consumer451 • today at 8:57 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

In meetings, I try to explain the roles of system prompts, agentic loops, tool calls, etc in the products I create, to the stakeholders.

However, they just look at the whole thing as "the LLM," which carries specific baggage. If we could all spread the knowledge of what is actually going on to the wider public, it would make my meetings easier, and prevent many very smart folks who are not practitioners from saying inaccurate stuff.

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staplers • today at 9:14 AM

  If we could all spread the knowledge of what is actually going on to the wider public, it would make my meetings easier, and prevent very smart folks from outside the field from saying dumb-sounding stuff.
This is an example of why LLMs won't displace engineers as severely as many think. There are very old solved processes and hyper-efficient ways of building things in the real world that still require a level of understanding many simply don't care or want to achieve.