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I think this is a useful phrase to me, and maybe the person reading this, right now. Take a look at the front page when I Google it:


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The first chunk is all about AI development.


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The second chunk seems more generalized to math and engineering fields as a whole.


Let's focus on that first chunk. You can tell a lot about a phrase by the people who use it - who's doing hard technical work? Who's, let's say, posting on StackOverflow to solve their specific issue training a model, and who's writing long-winded articles that, while well-intentioned, might be... frustratingly long when they don't have to be, perhaps because they're trying to pad word count in the hopes of maximizing SEO?


That's why I think it's a useful phrase. But here's another thought. What if, for any wild reason, this post goes viral - hopefully because a lot of people agree with it, more likely because of an algorithmic fluke - and a lot of people keep using the same phrase online? It might then start to enter training datasets for LLMs, further increasing how often people use the phrase. Semantic satiation might occur. As I understand, this is the phenomenon where you hear a word so many times, that you might start getting annoyed at it, and dismissing the ideas behind the word.


We want people to hear what we have to say. We don't want our ideas to be ignored. So I think one good first step is for software developers - as well as anyone doing hard engineering work, really - to choose your words, and how you present them, carefully. They matter.