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  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlOn Equality
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    4 days ago

    The consequence of always choosing the middle ground is that the middle ground will be progressively pulled toward the right.

    It’s like finding the average of an array of integers. If someone keeps adding negative numbers to the array, eventually the average will be negative. The people who instinctively go “but compromise!!!” without question or criticism are no smarter than a computer blindly computing the mean of a list.





  • LLMs can’t even stay on topic when specifically being asked to solve one problem.

    This happens to me all the damn time:

    I paste a class that references some other classes which I have already tested to be working, my problem is in a specific method that doesn’t directly call on any of the other classes. I tell the LLM specifically which method is not working, I also tell it that I have tested all the other methods and they work as intended (complete with comments documenting what they’re supposed to do). I then ask the LLM to only focus on the method I have specified, and it still goes on about “have you implemented all the other classes this class references? Here’s my shitty implementation of those classes instead.”

    So then I paste all the classes that the one I’m asking about depends on, reiterate that all of them have been tested and are working, tell the LLM which method has the problem again, and it still decides that my problem must be in the other classes and starts “fixing” them which 9 out of 10 times is just rearranging the code that I already wrote and fucking up the organisation that I had designed.

    It’s somewhat useful for searching for well-known example code using natural language, i.e. “How do I open a network socket using Rust,” or if your problem is really simple. Maybe it’s just the specific LLM I use, but in my experience it can’t actually problem solve better than humans.









  • This is why I prefer public transit for my morning commute as opposed to driving.

    You can doze off all you want without fear of killing someone. With how sleep deprived I usually am there’s no way me forcing myself to drive in the morning is safe. Worst that can happen is the bus driver gets annoyed at you because you slept past the last stop.