Engineer's take: our job has always been converting out-of-distribution ideas into in-distribution combinatorials
tobowers · x · 2026-10-25
A developer reflects on working creatively with LLMs: the job of engineers has always been to take out-of-distribution ideas and convert them into in-distribution combinatorials — a role LLMs make newly explicit.
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