Julia Evans on Nostr: one of the many good things about asking people questions instead of LLMs is that ...
one of the many good things about asking people questions instead of LLMs is that today i had a question about a project so i went to the discord to ask and the person said “oh no the software doesn’t do that but maybe we could change it so that it could”
(obviously asking people doesn’t always go well too, i have had many bad experiences with this approach too! it’s very messy!)
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