Our Collective Bike Shed Moment (opens in new tab)

In 1957, Parkinson postulated his using a fictitious committee reviewing plans for a nuclear power plant. The reactor design gets 10 minutes because nobody understands it, so nobody argues. The bike shed gets 45 minutes because everyone has opinions about the paint color.I feel like we are living this committee meeting at scale every day.LLMs are already better engineers than most of us. They are better at formal methods, and better at reasoning under pressure than most people. They run at in...