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Joel_Mckaytoday at 6:03 PM2 repliesview on HN

Only decades of standards compliance, workmanship training, and experience. Human beings are very good at spotting patterns in noisy jungles, and making rational design tradeoffs.

Auto-routers have been around far longer than even smartphones. Somewhat functional in the trivial problem domains, and always useless where design choices mattered.

Best of luck solving a named problem. =3


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KingMachiavellitoday at 7:09 PM

Computationally what’s the difference between a human and an LLM besides scale and speed? Trained humans are still using heuristics and shortcuts. Just because these are subconscious and only possessed by talented, trained professionals doesn’t make the skill computationally special.

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monocasatoday at 6:57 PM

> Only decades of standards compliance, workmanship training, and experience

If that could solve NP-hard problems, computer science would be a very different field.