in my recent round of interviews i had to unlearn the determinism of traditional engineering and embrace statistical and probabilistic problem thinking to pass the coding screens. was a big hurdle and very humbled but it explains a lot
@techconnectify.bsky.socialAnd that's the the crux of the problem. When my computer crashes, it stops working. When there's a render error, I can see it. Hell, if my heat stops working - my heat stopped working.
LLMs appear to "work" all the time, and the failure mode is only experienced later as real-life consequences.