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The word is *lessons*
Using separate language allows for separate behavior.
When a person speaks a corporate language instead of regular-person language, they behave in corporate ways instead of regular-person ways.
Which means they’d do things and accept things as a corporate person that regular-person they would not accept.
No Learnings
nolearnings.com
This is one reason why we continually grasp for the latest get-rich-quick or weight-loss scheme. New plans offer hope because we don’t have any experiences to ground our expectations. New strategies seem more appealing than old ones because they can have unbounded hope.
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
My gut tells me this pattern, which doesn’t really have a name, is going to be *the* pattern for working with these technologies to do complex things. The best name I can find for it is “specification repair”—see, for example, [this paper](https://arxiv.org/html/2309.16120v3). You ask a question and the LLM transforms it into a more detailed specification of a problem, then writes code to test that specification, then creates more specification, then tests that.
Is “Specification Repair” the AI Endgame?
Paul Ford
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