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0 pointsskydhash1y ago0 comments

There was a thread about that and gist was: A calculator is a great tool because it's deterministic and the failures are known (mostly related to precision); It eliminates the entire need of doing computation by hand and you don't have to babysit it though the computation process with "you're an expert mathematician..."; Also it's just a tool and you still need to learn basic mathematics to use it.

The equivalent to that is a good IDE that offers good navigation (project and dependencies), great feedback (highlighting, static code analysis,..), semantic manipulation, integration with external tooling, and the build/test/deploy process.

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rco87861y ago

Yes, I think agree. And when you use a calculator and get a result that doesn't make sense to you, you step in as the human and try and figure out what went wrong.

With the calculator, it's typically a human error that causes the issue. With AI, it's an AI error. But in practice it's not a different workflow.

Give inputs -> some machine does work much faster than you could -> use your human knowledge to verify outputs -> move forward or go back to step 1.

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rco87861y ago

Yes, I think agree. And when you use a calculator and get a result that doesn't make sense to you, you step in as the human and try and figure out what went wrong.

With the calculator, it's typically a human error that causes the issue. With AI, it's an AI error. But in practice it's not a different workflow.

Give inputs -> some machine does work much faster than you could -> use your human knowledge to verify outputs -> move forward or go back to step 1.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse