Do Not Be the Courier

LLMs can help you write code faster. Semantic ownership is what keeps the answer from becoming something you merely carried from one box to another. The unsettling part of the Chinese Room is not that the person inside gives bad answers. It is that the answers can be good. John Searle's thought experiment asks us to imagine a person locked in a room who does not understand Chinese. Sheets of Chinese text arrive under the door. The person has a rulebook, written in a language they do understand,