Lots of words, not a lot of meaning. What is this post about?

> When you truly understand what you’re trying to accomplish, it’s easier to take a small step...

I think they're describing an approach to decision-making in the context of agents.

Engineers encountering LLMs for the first time think the problems they encounter are entirely novel, but really we are rehashing old lessons which Fred Brooks wrote about half a century ago, but in new jargon.

The essential difficulty of specifying what you actually want remains the same and nothing I've seen from LLMs will change that.

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airstrike 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"First principles" is just the latest expression ruined by SFBA posers like "orthogonal" and "non-trivial" before it.

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Vaushite 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think it's saying you need to go back and think harder about the problem instead of putting all your effort points into a solution.

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itsalwaysgood 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Whatever it is you are doing, consider the very basic reason for doing it. And then, build your solutions from there from what is available. Examine the first principles of whatever it is you're doing.

You are working, and you are building things, to create value.

What are the tools you use to move about your environment and create your product, your value? Your knowledge, your training, your time.

If you examine the first principles of whatever it is you're doing, you should realize: you must keep your toolbox open and ready to swap new tools in and out in order to keep up with the time and manage yourself effectively.

AI is a tool, learn to use it as a tool and stop 'fighting the times' so much. All of your criticisms are valid, and you are correct: but everyone still wants to save time, and so you must keep up.

	▲	sunils34 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Original author here. ^ bingo.

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a3w 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Very confusing indeed. Is the core idea to read the picture as a flow from left to right? Or some people go down and left, but you need to first go right and iterate. Then go left and put it in a box. and then... dunno, lost track of thought, did AI or someone who is very new to Consulting write this?