A scribble: Feeling Confused
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So far in my career, I’ve found it useful but not always actionable to be confused. This is because it’s usually too costly to spend the time to learn and stop being confused.
Usually it’s time or the availability or accessibility of resources (despite the author’s honest attempts!).
LLMs are tipping the scales on this by drastically reducing the cost to learn. It’s now as easy as asking “why was this choice made?” or even “can you tell me more about that?”, both usually with the suffix: “give me code examples specific to what I’m currently working on”.
Confusion was always a signal, but now it’s much more commonly useful, and I’m finding it leads to better designs that I’m more confident in.
Tags: #personal , #llms