Where to Draw the Line
Which decisions should not be handed over to LLMs?
AI automation is only replacing the visible artifact of software engineering, not the actual job. We are demanding senior judgment while eliminating the work that produces it.
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- The Coding Philosopher - Indirected Reality: Language, truth, and LLMs How can LLMs appear to know facts about the world when they are trained only on patterns in language rather than direct experience of reality? queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=…
- Where Does the Foundation Come From? AI is taking over the work that used to develop professional judgment. For engineers with grounding, AI is a multiplier; without it, AI creates a productivity illusion in which output outpaces understanding. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=…
- Titan Transients and LLM Scalability The ghost in the machine Is the compute-efficient frontier (CEF) a universal constraint on the scalability of GenAI systems? It is a consequence of larger LLMs detecting inter-corpora correlations on all size scales queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=…
- Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era Beyond Zero is a new security paradigm designed for the AI era. Google’s vision for the future of this access model as well as a call for industry collaboration and standards development are outlined here. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=…

