toofy 5 days ago

nope. if i ask an llm to give me a detailed schematic to build a bridge, im not magically * poof * a structural engineer.

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rvnx 5 days ago

I don't know, if you actually design in some way and deliver the solution for the structure of the bridge, aren't you THE structural engineer for that project ?

Credentials don't define capability, execution does.

bluefirebrand 5 days ago

> Credentials don't define capability, execution does.

All the same, if my city starts to hire un-credentialed "engineers" to vibe-design bridges, I'm not going to drive on them

toofy 3 days ago

again, it doesn’t make me a structural engineer—it’s the outcome of hiring someone else to do it. it really isn’t complicated.

i’m not suddenly somehow a structural engineer. even worse, i would have no way to know when its full of dangerous hallucinations.

_heimdall 5 days ago

This argument runs squarely into the problems of whether credentials or outcomes are what's important, and whether the LLM is considered a tool or the one actually responsible doing the work.

toofy 3 days ago

it’s not that deep.

*if* it were a structurally sound bridge, it means i outsourced it. it’s that simple. it doesn’t magically make me a structural engineer, it means it was designed elsewhere.

if i hire someone to paint a picture it doesn’t magically somehow make me an artist.