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Brendinoootoday at 2:55 PM0 repliesview on HN

The one counterpoint I'd offer is that it's very obvious that these companies are tuning LLMs to be more decisive to get stuff done autonomously.

If they wanted, they could be putting in similar efforts to be more cautious and stop at the right times to ask for help.

So yeah, of course we're ultimately responsible for how we use the tools. But I definitely think it's a two way street.

To attempt an analogy, it's like table saws and sawstops. The table saw is a dangerous tool that works really well most of the time but has some failure modes that can be catastrophic. So you should learn how to use it carefully. But there is tech out there that can stop the blade in an instant and turn a lost finger into barely a nick on the skin.

We could say "The table saw didn't cut off your finger, you did" and it'd be true. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to find ways to keep the saw from cutting off your finger!