> ...In the west, and places influenced by it - most elites come to believe that value is purely subjective. We talk, instead, about people's _preferences_ - but we can't measure feelings, just actions. "Some things are more valuable than others" is a very different belief from "people prefer some things over others".

When it comes to functionnal products, my take is this is the rational we give because it is impossible to take down. What I think it really mean is "This is not me who wants it, it's them". It is the same argument as "I do it because if I don't do it, someone else will" when doing something illegal or immoral.

This is why I'm inclined to believe when your argument is this empty you know what you are doing. This is how you end up inventing "customer personas" and asking your consumer themselves why they buy your product.

I hope LLM use will drive efforts for testing and overall quality processes up. If such thing as an AGI ever exists, we'll still need output testing.

To me it does not matter if the person doing something for you is smarter than you, if it's not well specified and tested it is as good as a guess.

Can't wait for the AI that is almost unusable for someone without a defined problem.