| ▲ | toofy 6 days ago |
| nope. if i ask an llm to give me a detailed schematic to build a bridge, im not magically * poof * a structural engineer. |
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| ▲ | rvnx 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| I don't know, if you actually design in some way and deliver the solution for the structure of the bridge, aren't you THE structural engineer for that project ? Credentials don't define capability, execution does. |
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| ▲ | bluefirebrand 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | > Credentials don't define capability, execution does. All the same, if my city starts to hire un-credentialed "engineers" to vibe-design bridges, I'm not going to drive on them | |
| ▲ | toofy 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | again, it doesn’t make me a structural engineer—it’s the outcome of hiring someone else to do it. it really isn’t complicated. i’m not suddenly somehow a structural engineer. even worse, i would have no way to know when its full of dangerous hallucinations. |
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| ▲ | _heimdall 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This argument runs squarely into the problems of whether credentials or outcomes are what's important, and whether the LLM is considered a tool or the one actually responsible doing the work. |
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| ▲ | toofy 4 days ago | parent [-] | | it’s not that deep. *if* it were a structurally sound bridge, it means i outsourced it. it’s that simple. it doesn’t magically make me a structural engineer, it means it was designed elsewhere. if i hire someone to paint a picture it doesn’t magically somehow make me an artist. |
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