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This sounds like how I think. But for me, it often results in situations where I think much harder and longer than others but fail to act. I learned to someti
by stcg 1y ago
This sounds like how I think.
But for me, it often results in situations where I think much harder and longer than others but fail to act.
I learned to sometimes act instead of thinking more, because by acting I gain information I could not have learned by thinking.
Perhaps this human insight can be applied to working with LLMs. Perhaps not :)
- searls 1y agoYeah, I've been griping about LLM overconfidence for years, as somebody who is racked with self-doubt and second-guessing. On one hand, my own low opinion of myself made me a terrible mentor and manager, because having a similarly zero-trust policy towards my colleagues' work caused no end of friction (especially as a founder where people looked up to me for validation). On the other hand, i don't know very many top-tier practitioners that don't exhibit significantly more self-doubt than an off-the-shelf LLM. Hence this blog post. I will say I've got a dozen similar tricks baked into my Claude config, but I'm not sure they've helped any.
- mikepurvis 1y agoI relate to this a lot— I treat my colleagues' work with suspicion and distrust not because I don't trust them but because that's also my stance toward my own work, like "what is this BS? Is it absolutely necessary? Can it be half the length by leveraging a library or ignoring error handling in cases where a panic/crash is no worse than a controlled exit?" I find working with copilot is just catnip to someone like this because it's endlessly willing to iterate and explore the problem space, certainly well past the point where a normal person would be like are you for real can we just merge this and move on.