Comment by jiggawatts
2 months ago
> As a human, if you give me a number on screen like 100000000, I can't be totally sure if that's 100 Million or 1 Billion without getting close and counting carefully.
I become mildly infuriated when computers show metrics (or any large number) without thousands separators.
Worse still, I often see systems that mix units, don’t right-align, and occasionally blend in a few numbers with decimals together with whole numbers! Then, update everything every second to make things extra spicy.
Right. So if we have these kinds of cognitive blindness and just accept it as status quo, and when necessary we make up for it with tooling... it's not unreasonable to assume that AI will also have to do this