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Their wordsAlso, current models, while impressive, still fall well short of expert human performance.
Our reading
AI tooling and interface design lags behind the underlying models' actual capabilities.
Mental modelBottlenecks
Their wordsOverall, though, this experience reinforced my belief that the tooling and interface design around LLMs is lagging way behind the actual capabilities, and is an area of active experimentation and development, even aside from any future model improvements.
Our reading
As AI makes code cheaper to produce, understanding and architectural design become more valuable.
Mental modelValue moves to what stays scarce
Their wordsThus, code is cheaper than ever, but I suspect that insight and good architectural design and understanding, at least for now, will become more valuable than ever.
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