It would be hilarious if they don't know how to fix it because this was built by "running loops calling Claude" and they haven't the faintest idea of the present underlying architecture.
This is nonsense to get you to work more for the same pay.
Its good to do this to get an idea of what it means to work on a higher level but it WILL NOT get you promoted.
Promotion is about leverage. What can you supply that no one else can and thats crucial for your bosses-boss's success?
Stop thinking execution - its exactly the opposite of that.
Can you recruit people from other organizations, can you create a new product, work with every part fo the comapny, evangelize the company externally, attract capital ...
The LLMs help you understand how the pricing works.
Eg: when my shower didn't work I was able to figure out all steps - and also do most of them before getting stuck at one particular point because I couldn't physically pull the unit out of the socket.
I was able to negotiate down $150 for that one.
In another instance with gas pipes I was able to find laborers who were good but just didn't have a branded van yet.
In this case LLMs help me understand that the laborer was damn good at his job and how to cut the cost of the job by breaking into different pieces.
The whole process is very tactical - you will lose quite a few negotiations before figuring it out. Also its not useful to just abstract all the jobs as you've done in your post. You've somehow got to the EMH except for service providers - its just not true.
The way different types of compnaies force you to pay more is very different. Lockpickers are very different from plumbers for example.
Also each service provider have their own way of doing things and breaking points.
Also every geography is different. Service providers seem to charge the most with elderly house owners and peopel with nice houses in nice areas. So you can definitely use LLMs in those situations to find areas to put ads to attract better prices.
the best part of all this is how you can apply these negotiation skills to your job search or any other situation. definitely a long game like finance or health.
First thing that I thought off when LLMs came out - literally been in my head for 2 years.
A lot of price gouging is based on you not knowing the details or the process. With LLMs you can know both.
For most anything from kitchen renovations to A/C installation to Car servicing - you can now get an exacat idea on details and process. And you can negotiate on both.
You can also know how much "work" contractors have at this time which gives you more leverage.
For anything above $1000 in spend, learn about it from your LLM first. My usual questions:
1. What are all the steps involved? Break the steps down by cost.
2. What is the demand for this service in my area around this time of the year?
3. using the above details, how can I negotiate a lower price or find a place which will have this at a discount ?
I use an app but I also have an excel sheet where I track everything very carefully every week or so.
Trust my excel sheet much much more.
Honestly for everyone I know this is how they do it. There is one guy who built his own app and his is perfect because he has solved for his specific bank accounts.
He knows every $ coming in and going out - its pretty impressive.
Untrue - there isn't a personal finance solution that doesn't have mistakes. Not one. I've literally tried them all. Its mostly because the syncing with accounts is very very brittle and a lot of things like stock plans etc aren't supported well so your daily view will always be somewhat off.
There are insights to derive from the data - like how much do you really spend. But again its really hard to get there because the numbers are always off and most people don't actually want to know.
You are severely underestimating the average person's agency with their money.
That 80% of medical issues could be categorized as "standard medicine" with some personalization to the person?
residency you obviously see a lot of real life complicated cases but aren't the majority of the cases something a non resident could guide if not diagnose ?
I've seen that LLMs hallucinate in very subtle ways when guidng you through a course of treatment.
Once when having to administer eyedrops to a parent, and I saw redness and was being conservative, it told me the wrong drop to stop. The doctor saw my parent the next day so it was all fixed but did lead to me freaking out.
Doctors behave very differently from how we normal humans behave. They go through testing that not many of us would be able to sit through let alone pass.
And they are taught a multitude of subjects that are so far away from the subjects everyone else learns that we have no way to truly communicate to them.
And this massive chasm is the problem, not that the LLM is the wrong tool.
Thinking probabilistically (mainly basyesia) and understanding the initial first two years of medschool will help you use an LLM much more effectively for your health.
With LLMs the ability to create your own experience whilst using services as "databases" is really possible.
My crazy though is that this is where the internet will go.
One of the big problems with SaaS is that the apps are tuned to increase company profit - not user agency.
All that will flip. Agents are the first barrage in that direction but the movement is only just starting.
One barrier is configuration (code at scale) - ie a way to communicate exactly what you want.
Once we have that we compile from our needs (configuration) to an app thats exactly what we want backed by our accounts on amazon, uber, google, openai as databases and processing.
This is also why starting your own thing will give you better experience at being a VP than working at a 9-5.
(But it’s also harder than being a VP.)
And if you’re going back to 9-5 after an unsuccessful startup stint, look for VP or GM like roles. Anything else won’t have enough degrees of freedom to keep you happy
From a knowledge standpoint an LLM can give you pointers at any point.
Theres no way it will "fall short".
You just have to improve your prompt. In the worst case scenario you can say "please list out all the different research angles I should proceed from here and which of these might most likely yield a useful result for me"
:)