If you're going to spend a pretty good chunk of your lifetime eating, you might as well get good at it so you can enjoy the food you make
No such incentive exists for building software
People don’t only build software because they have to.
Thread seems to be saying LLMs are great because they do the dirty work and leave the fun work to humans. The counter-point is not exactly that LLMs aren't capable of doing dirty-work, it's that the nature of work isn't going to split so cleanly.
And cooking is a good example. Cooking is work. And slop. And it's also incredibly rewarding and creative, if you want it to be. Robots can help along that entire journey.
Maybe this is the core point: "cooking is a solved problem" that's how engineers always think. Except it's not. And 100% automation is still not going to break that discussion so cleanly.
> Maybe this is the core point: "cooking is a solved problem" that's how engineers always think.
But it isn’t, that’s a lazy stereotype of a subset.
