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Ron Bronson
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Except it is true in the sense that level of control teaches you where the bottlenecks are, and without that "feel" you increasingly lose insights that don't cascade down when someone only ever trains on/uses tools that abstract away the nuance that you get further from what the work is about

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social

this is a good post and I don’t doubt that LLMs pose a problem for the author‘s preferred style of working, but I wonder if there’s a bit of self-deception in the conception of always wanting to work on the lowest level thing possible. this can’t really be true in practice

purplesyringa.moeGrieving the loss of detailsI’ve been thinking about where I stand in respect to the current state of the industry. This is more of a journal note than a post, apologies for that. I usually leave this stuff private, but I though...
Ron Bronson
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Working on a product that all about details amplifies this grief. Not every product can abstract away all the friction, there will always been necessary blockers, misunderstanding, math that doesn't math. This idea that everyone hates "doing the work" is going to cause incalculable harms

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Ron Bronson
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The messiness of human affairs isn't a technical failure that we need to abstract away, it's understanding how to prove we care about people besides ourselves. It's why all this LLM have feelings stuff is so deeply offensive