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points by soraminazuki 6 hours ago | 0 comments

It's sad what software engineering has been reduced to for a lot of people. It's basically pickup artists compiling a list of "body languages" for LLMs, pretending as if there's science behind any of their interpretations.

[–] yladiz 5 hours ago

At least body language has some studies put into understanding it.

[–] soraminazuki 4 hours ago

That may be so, but most "body language tips" circulated online are cringey and lack the rigor and nuance of proper scientific studies. I think of human reactions as more complex than what those kinds of online materials imply.

It's even worse when applied to LLMs, which are more unpredictable.

[–] ares623 2 hours ago

At the very least the pick up artists have a common baseline in that they are also human.

[–] reactordev 1 hour ago

And LLMs have a common baseline in that they produce tokens. The comparison is apt. Both fields should be studied. Body language and Prompt Language.

[–] alberto467 2 hours ago

People had this grand idea of software engineering and how much complex it is and problem solving and this and that and you actually deserve 250k to do your “complex” job.

In reality many of them have not needed to look at a data structure or do any real computer science for years. They were just attending bullshit meetings and approving some pr with some basic sql query or some new react code.

Common people knew very little about computers and so they thought they were running on magic and that the software engineers were the magicians.

[–] soraminazuki 1 hour ago

Can't we just appreciate computer science, or any other field of study, for what it is? It's unfortunate that so many people now treat the fundamentals underpinning our whole profession as a nuisance to be left for LLMs, or resume padding.

[–] esafak 2 hours ago

That's what 'democratization' looks like. Everybody's an AI engineer now!