> I’m in a state where I can’t reconcile my own results with other people’s results. I hear people saying “this hammer is indestructible”, but when I pick it up, it’s just origami: made of paper, intricate, delicate, very cool-looking but I can’t even hammer a tomato with it.
This is a really interesting signal to me. It's almost indisputable that you can get good results (I get good results pretty consistently) and so there's definitely something there. I don't think that folks who don't get good results are doing something "wrong" so much as not understanding how to work with the model to get good results.
If I was at a company building these tools, the author would be the person I'd want to interview. I doubt it's a skill issue. And it's definitely not user error. You can't sell a tool that is said to do something but the user can't replicate the result.
A tool that works but only after you've invested lots of time working to reverse engineer it in your head isn't a good tool, even if it's extremely powerful. The tool needs to be customizable and personalizable and have safety rails to prevent bad results.
This is a really interesting signal to me. It's almost indisputable that you can get good results (I get good results pretty consistently) and so there's definitely something there. I don't think that folks who don't get good results are doing something "wrong" so much as not understanding how to work with the model to get good results.
If I was at a company building these tools, the author would be the person I'd want to interview. I doubt it's a skill issue. And it's definitely not user error. You can't sell a tool that is said to do something but the user can't replicate the result.
A tool that works but only after you've invested lots of time working to reverse engineer it in your head isn't a good tool, even if it's extremely powerful. The tool needs to be customizable and personalizable and have safety rails to prevent bad results.