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Re:RLHF is just barely RL by ben_w on Thursday August 08, 2024 @10:10AM (#41191731)
This still resolves as "business person asks for code, business person gets code, business person says if code is good or not, business person deploys code".

That an LLM or a human is where the code comes from, doesn't make much difference.

Though it does kinda sound like you're assuming all LLMs must develop with Waterfall? That they can't e.g. use Agile? (Or am I reading too much into that?)

Re:RLHF is just barely RL by discreteevent on Thursday August 08, 2024 @11:36AM (#41192677)
> business person says if code is good or not

How do they do this? They can't trust the tests because the tests were also developed by the LLM which is working from incorrect information it received in a chat with the business person.

Re:RLHF is just barely RL by ben_w on Thursday August 08, 2024 @12:05PM (#41193014)
The same way they already do with humans coders whose unit tests were developed by exactly same flawed processes:

Mediocrely.

Sometimes the current process works, other times the planes fall out of the sky, or updates causes millions of computers to blue screen on startup at the same time.

LLMs in particular, and AI in general, doesn't need to beat humans at the same tasks.