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Imagine if the advice for Dishwasher usage mirrored the advice for AI

"You have to iterate on the output to get good results"

Just keep running that dishwasher until they're clean! If you run it and they're still dirty, load it up with soap and try again!

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That's all new technology though. Dishwashers _were_ like that.

What's seemed to change are people's expectations of technology that "just works". When in reality, we are in the infant years of AI/ML and LLMs

We're so spoiled by the pace of innovation we're upset it requires a bit of hand-holding while they figure things out.

It's still egregious because the main theme is "Learn how to work with AI so you won't be left behind in the future!" The analogy in that case is to waste time pointlessly learning the quirks of old dishwashers while new dishwashers won't have them in the future.

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