Casually dragging new employees into the deepest shit, it’s breathtaking. Also the naïveté of going along with it??
> He has directed job candidates still working for Apple to bring “Actual parts” from Apple to their interviews for “show and tell” sessions in which he and his team at OpenAI can elicit still more Apple confidential information
I think it’s largely there to set up the point that comes after, which is that it would be absurd in a professional setting to pronounce a problem unsolvable because the entirety of your university education doesn’t provide enough information to solve the problem.
I've noticed a considerable drop-off in HN commenters who are unable to deal with the substance of a comment if it contains errors in spelling or grammar, so I don't think this is the issue it used to be.
It's still daunting posting in a second language, and LLMs are an attractive solution to that (depending on your definition of 'solution').
> The hard part is investigation, understanding context, validating assumptions, and knowing why a particular approach is the right one for this situation
Yes. Another way to describe it is the valuable part.
AI tools are great at delineating high and low value work.
Design thinking is a collection of techniques that have been professional-ized into a consulting practice. Hence the mystique.
What I appreciate about a good design thinking session is:
- It externalises the insides of peoples heads in a way that allows other participants to share that knowledge. Individual tacit knowledge becomes shared general knowledge.
- Knowledge elicited during the session is presented in a way that makes it actionable
A design thinking session is doomed to failure if it isn't comprised of:
- Domain experts
- Decision makers
- A facilitator who actually knows what they're doing
This is the answer, and this strategy can be used on lots of otherwise unsafe activities - put a tool between the LLM and the service you want to use, and bake the guardrails into the tool (or make them configurable)
> He has directed job candidates still working for Apple to bring “Actual parts” from Apple to their interviews for “show and tell” sessions in which he and his team at OpenAI can elicit still more Apple confidential information