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lokar • today at 6:57 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It’s a combination of technical capabilities and human nature / incentives in big companies.

Concepts like good design, security, quality are abstract and hard to measure.

Time, cost, revenue etc are easy to measure. The “quality” people eventually get push aside by the money people.

This is not new, but LLMs further tilt the balance


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gchamonlive • today at 7:38 PM

> This is not new, but LLMs further tilt the balance

You speak as if llms had their own minds. Every time anyone talks about AI doing this or that they further reinforce this idea that there isn't a person behind all this. There's always someone watching.

With that said, when you say that llms tilt the balance, who specifically do you say that's driving llms to do that?

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