Comment by beaker52
3 days ago
Only it’s a bit like me getting back into cooking because I described the dish I want to a trainee cook.
3 days ago
Only it’s a bit like me getting back into cooking because I described the dish I want to a trainee cook.
Depends on how you're using the LLMs. It can also be like having someone else around to chop the onions, wash the pans and find the ingredients when you need them.
The head chefs at most restaurants delegate the majority of details of dishes to their kitchen staff, then critique and refine.
This approach seems to have worked out for both Warhol and Chihuly.
As long as you get the dish you want when before you couldn’t have it — who cares?
Sure, as long as you don’t expect me to digest it, live with it, and crap it out for you, I see no problem with it.
My expectations don’t change whether or not I’m using AI, and neither do my standards.
Whether or not you use my software is up to you.
So you're saying that if you go to any famous restaurant and the famous face of the restaurant isn't personally preparing your dinner with their hands and singular attention, you are disappointed.
Got it.
Are you even cooking if you did not collect your own ingredients and forge your own tools??
Isn't that still considered cooking? If I describe the dish I want, and someone else makes it for me, I was still the catalyst for that dish. It would not have existed without me. So yes, I did cook it.
Work harder!
Now I’m a life coach because I’m responsible for your promotion.
Ok, maybe my analogy wasn't the best. But the point I was trying to make is that using AI tools to write code doesn't meant you didn't write the code.
Very apt analogy. I'm still waiting for my paycheck.
> If I describe the dish I want, and someone else makes it for me, I was still the catalyst for that dish. It would not have existed without me. So yes, I did "cook" it.
The person who actually cooked it cooked it. Being the "catalyst" doesn't make you the creator, nor does it mean you get to claim that you did the work.
Otherwise you could say you "cooked a meal" every time you went to MacDonald's.
Why is the head chef called the head chef, then? He doesn’t “cook”.
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I would argue that you technically did not cook it yourself - you are however responsible for having cooked it. You directed the cooking.
Flipping toggle switches went out of fashion many, many, many years ago. We've been describing to trainees (compilers) the dish we want for longer than most on HN have been alive.
Actually, we’ve been formally declaring the logic of programs to compilers, which is something very different.
(Replying to myself because hn)
That’s not the only difference at all. A good use of an LLM might be to ask it what the difference between using an LLM and writing code for a compiler is.
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The only difference is that newer languages have figured out how to remove a lot of the boilerplate.
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