Shagility and Speaker B argue that being in the room beats survey data. Physical presence catches arguments and process steps that outliers reveal, things LLMs trained on surveys would dismiss. Experience-driven mentorship teaches junior engineers to question what the data claims versus what actually happens.
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And so we knew there was a variation because we were in the room and it became a discussion and argument, and we could see the variation. Now, if I got those and got the surveys and put them in, would an LLM go, well, there's this outlier, but I don't care? Now I'd have to ask it for the outlier, but would I even think that there wasn't somebody? Well, I'd probably think, actually, 30 years ago, I probably assumed they followed the process. Now I know that when somebody tells me there's a process, the first thing I do is look at the data to see whether it follows that process and go, well, what about this step? That you never told me about. Oh, that one.
Well, and I go back to our conversation about, you know, training junior engineers to be senior engineers at that point, right? That comes from those types of decision-making, that type of decision-making and just critical thinking comes from your experience, comes from lived experience and lived trauma of living through that argument