Not only should AI misdiagnose to save lives, but a human should too. You walk in with symptoms that most likely is a harmless virus that clears up on its own or 5% of the time is a deadly bacteria. The correct course of action is to try to test if it is the 5% case (most often the wrong diagnosis), not send people home because they are most likely fine. Many cases have a similar low but not 0 risky diagnosis.
Right? I keep telling people that Titanic wasn't a documentary, it was an instruction manual for the future. Look the deleted scenes. You don't lack the ability to understand your situation, you simply lack the information required to understand how hopeless you are. Poof, and this comment is gone.
I keep telling people but no one will listen to me that these things are not sustainable and no productivity can be gotten from using these tools. You must compose your context and consume every bit as much as you are able. These agents and other things operate like a casino throwing tokens sometimes getting it right, but you will not make any meaningful progress unless you learn to control context and snowball the conversation. It's a more complex iterative process for which there is no subject. This is far more advanced level of programming allowing us to make bigger systems less complex. There's unusual ways of using this, yes. We're looking at pricing well above $10,000 / year, call me crazy you will until you'll suddenly stop when you realize I was right. There's only one way, total context control and simple interface. I had to create a simple interface because the tool I was using released an updated and I couldn't wait. So you'll all end up using something similar to what I made, with ChatGPT, to then use the API directly. Combined with VS Code makes for very easy, natural way of consuming tokens and generally work with this. You can just assume file is prompt.md, that you have such file in every directory where you intend to execute the command and make it available at path.
When you ALL were paying for subscription I was paying for API costing me much less than subscription, being less stressed, knowing I don't have to worry about fog of context.
I see it now, it's not sustainable. They've signed contracts they can't get out from and we're gonna have to pay, with blood, gold, or in this case, quality.
You will pay, you (we) will all pay for their debts.
I think if anyone is looking for a concise way to talk about the problems with LLM and agentic coding, it's this. People say AI assisted coding but for much of what I've seen (and tried), it's the tool, gateway, and interface to some people's work now.
I'm so glad I was able to use LLMs to finish my project in the sweet spot between 23 and 25 when the pricing was cheap and the getting was good, even though we had some bumps along the way had to wait and downtime. those who benefited the most are the ones who were able to earn experience using these things. cause going forward it'll only get more expensive. gpt 4.1 - 5.1 was $2 diff. we're now .1 generation @ $30 per mil. double. they've already done their projections, people need to understand this is going north of $10000/year for general purpose access.
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