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aforwardslash • yesterday at 10:19 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Does the essay compile? And if not, will it iterate until it does?

By now, is your Markov chain still a Markov chain, or does it have another name?

People love to discuss semantics. Yes, *today* a competent product manager enters requirements and - if not too complex - the llm will shit, review, debug, fix an application. That is the reality today. Not in 2031.

Only developers think that in most cases, the hard part is code. Its never been.


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serhei • yesterday at 11:14 PM

> Only developers think that in most cases, the hard part is code. Its never been.

The correct way to think about this:

The hard part is ensuring the product does not exhibit undesired behaviours. Writing code is one possible tool for ensuring this. Replacing writing code with LLMs only works to the extent that LLMs accurately predict your definition of 'undesired'. The more unique and innovative your product, the more likely the LLM prediction is to be inaccurate.

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