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Comment by state_less

6 hours ago

Asking the LLM to 'just' fix 'it', or whatever, is going to get you lost in the woods.

You're car will have spun off the road and you'll find it harder and harder to control it and keep it on the road because you have less and less visibility into the vehicle, nor will you be able to clearly see out your windscreen to use the car and road metaphor. You'll be driving blind eventually, unless your working on some simple closed toy problems and/or other small systems.

Building large systems means understanding the system. Without understanding the system, you lose control of it.

The LLM can probably help you understand the system to gain/regain some control of it again, but now you're becoming a system specialist rather than someone who's repeating, "fix it" and "make it good" or whatever.