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Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM

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Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM
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The author argues that relying on LLMs for complex, nuanced questions often fails to capture the depth of human experience and professional intuition. They suggest that human experts provide unique value that AI cannot replicate, especially when dealing with non-consensus topics.

I'm a million times more likely to send an email or a text than to pick up the phone. But I had a question I thought was worth an actual call, so I scheduled one with someone senior enough to have real scar tissue, the kind you only get from watching a decision go sideways in a boardroom. I asked him where he'd look, personally, for the answer to a hard question I was chasing, one without industry consensus. Not what the textbook says. If five studies conflicted, which would he trust? I wanted the thing 30 years had taught him that a search engine couldn't.

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