Most Work Is Translation

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The article discusses how most work involves translation between different stakeholders and departments.

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lordkrandel

4 months ago

There is difference between translation and conceptualization, creating models, inferring, and bringing personal experience to evaluate context. And then yeah, you have to put it in the right words. All that LLM are terrible at, human analysts can do.

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