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minus-squareNathan@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·15 days agoThan I’m glad I didn’t waste too much of your time 🙂 There is an argument hidden in there, it is: If your work isn’t about results anymore, but which tools you used, something is off and a tool isn’t just a tool anymore. Especially if you’re forced to use something destructive like LLMs.
minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 days agoI felt like this was something meta, but thanks for putting it clearly. It is a reasonable observation, but I feel like it’s a bit tangential to tool being a tool and is more about the context luggage that a tool carries
Than I’m glad I didn’t waste too much of your time 🙂 There is an argument hidden in there, it is:
If your work isn’t about results anymore, but which tools you used, something is off and a tool isn’t just a tool anymore.
Especially if you’re forced to use something destructive like LLMs.
I felt like this was something meta, but thanks for putting it clearly. It is a reasonable observation, but I feel like it’s a bit tangential to tool being a tool and is more about the context luggage that a tool carries