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Machine learning generally, and LLMs more specifically, are good for where the number of heuristics you develop starts to outweigh their maintenance cost. I’ve heard this also called the 1000-intern heuristic: if it’s a task that can be simplified by a thousand people entirely new to the task doing it, then do that.

The influence of the Dana Scully character on my generation of girls is known as the Scully Effect. We women who frequently watched The X-Files as teenagers were more than 50% more likely to study a STEM field in college than women who didn’t watch.