Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

I was talking about roof sheathing with the latest chat gpt.

It was confident the joists should go above the sheathing.

LLMs seem to be pretty bad at home improvement sort of questions in my experience. I suspect they don’t have a team of carpenters they use to RL the models, like they do for software engineers, etc

Software is easier because you can basically ‘inspect the house’ and the ‘home inspector’ via software.

Harder to do that with a house. Also a lot of different rules based on locality.