> Uncle Bob is a snake oil salesman I think it's not as bad as a snake oil salesman that knew their product was not good. In reality, most software design and dev advice is well intentioned but is just based on personal…
> I still think it's far more likely that people aren't describing the same thing. People are very, very bad at interpreting and experiencing their mind's inner workings. Are you thinking that the term "internal…
> Have you ever reasoned through a complex coding or maths problem? Tell me, how did you do that without words? When I'm working through complex software design issues it's almost all abstract images/conceptual. Testing…
> I'm very reluctant to believe people when they say they don't have an internal monologue. Why would you choose internal monologue as the default position and no internal monologue needs to be proved? It seems the…
> I recently encountered a query that deadlocked on itself because it used a parallel execution plan and updated multiple indexes in a manner that the different threads could conflict with each other. MS SQL? We've had…
> A biological synapse's weight takes effect whenever its input changes. I don't think it makes sense to try to compare our brains to ANN's, they are apples and oranges. A synapse's weight is dynamically modulated by…
Ya, I just started using them in File Explorer recently and I really like them because I frequently had multiple windows open within the same tree, this is much cleaner. I can't believe it took me so long to actually…
Those example are exactly the problem that has not been solved yet. They are the best we can do so far but are pretty inadequate to communicate complex designs in a way that a person can easily absorb all of that info…
Based on available info, NomadGo doesn't rely on an LLM. The issues reported had to do with incorrect object recognition.
This comment brings back memories of a project. We were working through many complex business flows and running into exactly what you describe in many areas. Some of the project people with less experience complained…
> But I don’t think we should be calling these people “domain experts”. I think we should reserve that name for the other group, for the people who truly and deeply understand the domain, the whys and whats and why…
> It's very difficult to define a specification that works as intended, even with tools. Agree, we are in the stone age in software design and dev. We have not figured out a good way to communicate the design of complex…
> Seems like tacit acknowledgment that IBM mothership is not the right place for a speculative growth play from both a management and capital perspective. I'm not understanding your logic, can you explain? What I see…
> What I'm saying is that this is incorrect. An "idea" exists within a model before it generates tokens. If that were the case, then the systems would generate words based on the fully resolved idea, but that is not how…
> I've seen proposals for Product Managers to define those conditions themselves by speaking with the LLM. But the LLM is not aware of how the business works and why, so someone needs to work with the business to…
> And then, a follow-up: what is actually the bottleneck at most companies? What causes "requirements gathering" to take long? Complexity. In my experience (medium size businesses, i.e. 200 million to 2 billion annual…
I tend to agree with the article. A typical example of trying to add a new significant capability involves many meetings (days, weeks, months, etc. )with the business to understand how their work flows between systems…
> Thoughts don't happen in a vacuum, they are triggered by external or internal stimuli, and these stimuli/thought precursors could very easily be tokens (dense info packets), which then map to latent space vectors,…
LLM's generate their output words sequentially based on probability (from learned stats). Human's don't operate the same way, the thought happens and then the words are generated to reasonably describe that thought.
> "We don't understand intelligence, so you literally have no idea whether what we recognize as intelligence is some suitable arrangement of "statistical token generation"" Do you mean "token" as in the LLM sense? Or…
> Notably, his essay “no silver bullet” states that there has never been a new technology or way of thinking or working that has led to a 10X increase in the speed of software development. I think the statement is…
Both things can be true at the same time: 1-There is significant collaboration and action required beyond just coding to successfully create+implement software systems 2-When performing the coding step, minimal…
Late response, was out of town. Agreed there is significant information in the latent space, but what is missing is a fully resolved "thought" based on that information plus current context plus validation against an…
> but I find it almost as hard to see why evolution did. Ignoring the concept of consciousness, it seems that self-awareness would be a strong attribute related to survival. It seems like it would help drive or amplify…
> I've had a lot of thoughts and conversations Do LLM's have thoughts? When you composed your post, your thought already existed in you head and you chose words that expressed the thought you held in your head. When…
> Uncle Bob is a snake oil salesman I think it's not as bad as a snake oil salesman that knew their product was not good. In reality, most software design and dev advice is well intentioned but is just based on personal…
> I still think it's far more likely that people aren't describing the same thing. People are very, very bad at interpreting and experiencing their mind's inner workings. Are you thinking that the term "internal…
> Have you ever reasoned through a complex coding or maths problem? Tell me, how did you do that without words? When I'm working through complex software design issues it's almost all abstract images/conceptual. Testing…
> I'm very reluctant to believe people when they say they don't have an internal monologue. Why would you choose internal monologue as the default position and no internal monologue needs to be proved? It seems the…
> I recently encountered a query that deadlocked on itself because it used a parallel execution plan and updated multiple indexes in a manner that the different threads could conflict with each other. MS SQL? We've had…
> A biological synapse's weight takes effect whenever its input changes. I don't think it makes sense to try to compare our brains to ANN's, they are apples and oranges. A synapse's weight is dynamically modulated by…
Ya, I just started using them in File Explorer recently and I really like them because I frequently had multiple windows open within the same tree, this is much cleaner. I can't believe it took me so long to actually…
Those example are exactly the problem that has not been solved yet. They are the best we can do so far but are pretty inadequate to communicate complex designs in a way that a person can easily absorb all of that info…
Based on available info, NomadGo doesn't rely on an LLM. The issues reported had to do with incorrect object recognition.
This comment brings back memories of a project. We were working through many complex business flows and running into exactly what you describe in many areas. Some of the project people with less experience complained…
> But I don’t think we should be calling these people “domain experts”. I think we should reserve that name for the other group, for the people who truly and deeply understand the domain, the whys and whats and why…
> It's very difficult to define a specification that works as intended, even with tools. Agree, we are in the stone age in software design and dev. We have not figured out a good way to communicate the design of complex…
> Seems like tacit acknowledgment that IBM mothership is not the right place for a speculative growth play from both a management and capital perspective. I'm not understanding your logic, can you explain? What I see…
> What I'm saying is that this is incorrect. An "idea" exists within a model before it generates tokens. If that were the case, then the systems would generate words based on the fully resolved idea, but that is not how…
> I've seen proposals for Product Managers to define those conditions themselves by speaking with the LLM. But the LLM is not aware of how the business works and why, so someone needs to work with the business to…
> And then, a follow-up: what is actually the bottleneck at most companies? What causes "requirements gathering" to take long? Complexity. In my experience (medium size businesses, i.e. 200 million to 2 billion annual…
I tend to agree with the article. A typical example of trying to add a new significant capability involves many meetings (days, weeks, months, etc. )with the business to understand how their work flows between systems…
> Thoughts don't happen in a vacuum, they are triggered by external or internal stimuli, and these stimuli/thought precursors could very easily be tokens (dense info packets), which then map to latent space vectors,…
LLM's generate their output words sequentially based on probability (from learned stats). Human's don't operate the same way, the thought happens and then the words are generated to reasonably describe that thought.
> "We don't understand intelligence, so you literally have no idea whether what we recognize as intelligence is some suitable arrangement of "statistical token generation"" Do you mean "token" as in the LLM sense? Or…
> Notably, his essay “no silver bullet” states that there has never been a new technology or way of thinking or working that has led to a 10X increase in the speed of software development. I think the statement is…
Both things can be true at the same time: 1-There is significant collaboration and action required beyond just coding to successfully create+implement software systems 2-When performing the coding step, minimal…
Late response, was out of town. Agreed there is significant information in the latent space, but what is missing is a fully resolved "thought" based on that information plus current context plus validation against an…
> but I find it almost as hard to see why evolution did. Ignoring the concept of consciousness, it seems that self-awareness would be a strong attribute related to survival. It seems like it would help drive or amplify…
> I've had a lot of thoughts and conversations Do LLM's have thoughts? When you composed your post, your thought already existed in you head and you chose words that expressed the thought you held in your head. When…