LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction (www.lelanthran.com)

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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

'But there's probability!' is such a weird nitpick, when any randomness is obviously added on purpose. You can just... not. It's literally matrix algebra. Noise is a generally useful tweak for a glorified chatbot.

[-] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 2 points 18 hours ago

Not even a good chatbot

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago

Good enough.

Good enough to bicker about maintainability.

Good enough to be a problem for open-source, since it can convert a whole project to another language, or just rewrite everything in a different structure.

If it simply Did Not Work, there'd be nothing to discuss. But the unavoidable truth is that chatbots can code, now, and we all have to deal with it. If randomness is more trouble than it's worth, well then hey guess what, determinism is the default.

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