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by skadamat·2y ago·view on hn ↗
LLM's are a fantastic tool, but they're just a tool. They're not perfect and you may not always have an LLM nearby or some dark knowledge / data may never be LLM-indexed.

Treat it like a search engine! Search engines eliminated the need for some types of skills (scouring physical books for information, using yellow pages to find the phone number of a business, etc) but they didn't eliminate the need for:

- journals & newsletters for curating & opining on said information

- new media formats for helping us understand the information

- and much more

We just moved "up the stack" so to speak. Information finding became a commodity. There will be new sources of precious information and work that may now be even more valuable because LLM's commoditized basic stuff.

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That’s an interesting analogy and makes a lot of sense.

But in the long run, wouldn’t it make sense to have one or more layers of obfuscation. Rather than everyone typing prompts, have libraries of functions for specialized purposes. Then different models can be plugged in and out of those functions.

Just like I can program without knowing assembly.

Maybe this already exists. I don’t know.