alt Hacker NewsBut there's a new skill blossoming there, right? That's what I'm noticing. The atrophying skill is one you don't need anymore. The new one - prompting, routing the output, spotting the hallucinations, managing singal/noise etc. - is now where you can add tremendous value.
To say nothing of being bold enough to run systems like that in the first place. I know some of engineers that are still folding their arms and refusing to engage with AI!
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I don't know how to spot hallucinations, manage signal/noise, without having a pretty good understanding of the problem space. It's a tough balancing act.
> The atrophying skill is one you don't need anymore.
of course. who needs to walk when we have cars
A company comprised entirely of management. I'm sure only great things will come of this.
Every new model and you might as well chuck 90% of that knowledge in the bin.
Last Claude major version they released a blog post basically telling you to chuck away your Claude.md file and start again.
It was only 18 months ago when people were telling you to use ultrathink:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739997
And then that went away about a year ago, and now it’s sort of back again but not quite as it was.
>spotting the hallucinations
SRE here, spotting the hallucinations requires you to have the knowledge to know when it's wrong. Best way to gain knowledge on systems is actually working on them. If AI do all the work, then you don't get the knowledge.