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xienzetoday at 3:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

> domain experts will be fine

But I don't see how this holds up to even the slightest amount of scrutiny. We're literally training LLMs to BE domain experts.


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bwestergardtoday at 3:55 PM

I think these arguments tend to reach impasse because one gravitates to one of two views:

1) My experiences with LLMs are so impressive that I consider their output to generally be better than what the typical developer would produce. People who can't see this have not gotten enough experience with the models I find so impressive, or are in denial about the devaluation of their skills.

2) My experiences with LLMs have been mundane. People who see them as transformative lack the expertise required to distinguish between mediocre and excellent code, leading them to deny there is a difference.

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jandrewrogerstoday at 5:04 PM

An enormous amount of domain expertise is not legible to LLMs. Their dependence on obtaining knowledge through someone else's writing is a real limitation. A lot of human domain expertise is not acquired that way.

They still have a long way to go before they can master a domain from first principles, which constrains the mastery possible.

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