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The amount of armchair quarterback commentary in the software business as concerns people waxing eloquent a out difficult things safe atop a perch of the same easy things achieved multiple times has always been obnoxious, offensive to the thermodynamics of the situation as situated by Landauer.

But this new "you're holding it wrong" series by people whose grasp of the system gets fuzzy somewhere in the v8 headers is a new land speed record for being vacuously correct and still an attractive nuisance for profit.

Yes, the trend towards encoding hard-won domain knowledge as property and fuzz testing and sometimes even proof system was underway before ChatGPT, and yes, the economics of this approach bend sharply under a post terrawright world.

But no, you haven't added anything except tinsel and chaff and some green css on mixpanel.

Just stop with this shit. If you knew shit about AI you'd be too busy printing cash to teach the rest of us about it.

I'm not sure there is any value in knowing shit about AI. I know quite a lot about enterprise organisation level AI, but really, you could just ask an AI and it'd guide you through the processes. Knowledge in general is going to become real cheap in the age of AI. I've been a data archtiect in the past, so I used Opus 4.8 as I would've used a consultant agency on how to do our data architecture for multiple standard systems which can't directly share data with eachother. After a couple of hours with it as a sparring partner, I had some pretty awesome powerpoint decision making slides, one for c-levels and one for it-management.

Since our owners also own an IT consultant agency, I ran the same process through with one of our regular consultants who is an actual awesome data architect. The output was strikingly similar, well except that I/we didn't need to make the slides. I then had him run over the actual slides, and all we changed was adding a { between some arrows to make the source of the arrows more clear.

We're still going to use real human consultants in the loop because they are readily and freely available, and because this is still new. I doubt we'd want to spend 100 consultant hours on something like this in 5 years though. I mean, we'd still do it for decisions where we'd want someone to blame.

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