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kvn95ss

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kvn95ss··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
They said "many" sequential tasks in "parallel". Sure the singular task is still sequential, but in the end more is being done.

Including approaching a burnout faster than doing one task at a time.

kvn95ss··on I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs
> Also, I’m not sure whether “general reasoning” even exists in the first place? Maybe humans are specialised too

I have been wondering the same. We are now exposed to so many stimuli, we are tricked into thinking this is the norm - to have a reasonable understanding about everything, unless specialization is called for.