The communication skills to create the synchronized understandings necessary for teams of any moderate size to operate in concert is not there. Communications are everything when it comes to collaborations at any level, and we as an entire civilization are weak at this aspect. This effective communication necessity.

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0xpgm 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Many people are good at communicating. Perhaps not all, but many.

However, even less are good/interested at playing Machiavellian politics to get things done in work environments. The larger the workplace, the more at stake, the more likely this is how things are done.

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coffeebeqn a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also AI don’t seem to make communication better, worse if anything. I’m so sick of the whole team not understanding what is going on with Claude written docs and tickets

	▲	notnullorvoid 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		People with AI brain are painful to deal with. They take a small spark of an idea and feed it to an LLM to expand on it and reinforce their assumptions. When challenged on the details they don't have good arguments, because they never actually thought through the problem. If it's not in person communication you just end up debating with an LLM.

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superxpro12 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

a lot of what i do with ai is write (gasp) requirements. which is horrifying to engineers for some reason.

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bsenftner a day ago | parent | next [-]

I wonder how much of your requirements would / could be reinterpreted as a dependency graph of logical constraints. I think we may end up with "writing software" to end up being writing such logic + process dependency graphs in plain language. And by extension, given we're talking about people here, committees will form and hammering these out is the new politics.

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sgt101 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

it's good to write requirements,

but when you have requirements,

why not render the code to fulfil them?

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ben_w a day ago | parent [-]

> but when you have requirements,

> why not render the code to fulfil them?

Because 95% of the time the LLM can turn the requirements into code, faster, cheaper, and with fewer defects on the first attempt, than most humans.

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CrimsonCape a day ago | parent [-]

Your point needs to be emphasized more. Today is the worse AI will ever be, and it's still better than the average person. Recursive self-improvement will make it even better, maybe on orders of magnitude. When you task an AI, it will be able to walk upward abstractly to ask "is this even a good approach." AI's are good for compartmentalized tasks now, but the architectural tasks will probably be improved in the future.

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bsenftner a day ago | parent [-]

I can imagine the meltdown when AI starts telling its users "that is not how it would work best, consider this ____" and they rant on about their need for and constant use of their "I don't care, do what I say" clipboard loaded paste.

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Pulcinella 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People say AI is just stolen StackOverflow solutions, but in a few more years frontier models will truly be able to replicate the "Rather than help you, have you heard of the X/Y problem?" experience.

	▲	ben_w 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I generally find they already do that, only they are better at understanding the question and intent and the solutions are better (or at least less often obsolete).

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ben_w a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm not generally sold on the "worthy successor" or "human disempowerment would be good" arguments (seems like jumping straight to Hard Mode of alignment when we've not even read the tutorial) but this is one of the ways it might be best for the AI to just… disregard what we say and do something else instead.

	▲	bsenftner a day ago \| parent [-]
		We'll get to a point where the best practices are to "tell AI what you want to do, and allow it to tell you how you're going to do it".

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sick_of_slop a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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jurgenburgen a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I love requirements. Slop, not so much.