Jeff Dean: recommendation

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…So how, how do you, I’m curious how you change your just working rhythm, you know, like you spend more time ahead with people going through SPACs and design. Goals. Like, um, I mean, I do think it’s interesting that, you know, whenever people were taught how to write software, they were taught that it’s really important to write specifications super clearly, but no one really believed that. Like it was like, yeah, whatever. I don’t need to do that. I’m going to really, I don’t know. I mean, writing the English language specification was never kind of an artifact that was really paid a lot of attention to. I mean, it was important, but it wasn’t sort of the thing. That drove the actual creative process quite as much as if you specify what software you want the agent to write for you, you’d better be pretty darn careful of and how you specify that because that’s going to dictate the quality of the output, right? Like if you, if you don’t cover that it needs to handle this kind of thing, or that this is a super important corner case, or that, you know, you really care about the performance of this part of it, you know, it may, uh, not do what you want. Yeah. And the better you get at interacting with these models. And I think one of the ways people will get better is they will get really good at crisply specifying things rather than leaving things to ambiguity. And that is actually probably not a bad thing. It’s not a bad skill to have, regardless of whether you’re a software engineer or a, you know, trying to do some other kind of, uh, task, you know, being able to crisply specify what it is you want. It’s going to be really important. Yeah. My, my joke is, um, you know, good. Yeah. I think one thing is in, uh, indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced executive communication, like it’s like writing an internal memo, like weigh your words very carefully and also I think very important to be multimodal, right? I think, uh, one thing that, uh, anti-gravity from, from Google also did was like, just come out the gate to very, very strong multimodal, including videos, and that’s the highest bandwidth communication prompt that you can give to the model, which is fantastic. Yeah.…

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