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throwaway27448yesterday at 3:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

> You've implicitly assumed here that AI systems will always be worse at contextualizing and framing questions than the average engineer.

How would they know what to ask or contextualize if they don't know what the user wants?


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ben_wyesterday at 3:38 PM

By asking the user to explain what they want whenever there's ambiguity.

Plus all the other things that software engineers generally have not learned to a professional level even if they picked up the basics on the job by osmosis, because figuring out the customer's needs (and what they'll pay you for which may be different) is the job of a business analyst, a PM, or a UX researcher, and those are different skills and two of them may come with a Business Informatics degree rather than a CompSci one.

LLMs can be "eh, better than nothing" at many things, not just code.

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BugsJustFindMeyesterday at 3:26 PM

Are you suggesting that psychic mindreading powers are real?

> How would they know

How would you? The answer is the same.

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