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Re:Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to "wr... by becquerel on Friday January 03, 2025 @11:37AM (#42587083)
This has been part of LLM usage since day 1, and I say that as an ardent fan of the tech. Let's not forget how much ink has been spilled over that fact that "think through this step by step" measurably improved/improves performance.
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Re:Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to "wr... by RansomStark on Friday January 03, 2025 @02:41PM (#42588787)
> "think through this step by step"

Has always made sense to me, if you think how these models were trained.

My experience with great stackoverflow responses and detailed blog posts, they often contain "think through this step by step" or something very similar.

Intuitively adding that phrase should help the model narrow down the response content / formatting

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Re:Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to "wr... by zahlman on Saturday January 04, 2025 @08:04AM (#42594460)
Then why don't they hard-code the interface to the model to pretend you included that in the prompt?
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Re:Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to "wr... by Phlogistique on Saturday January 04, 2025 @09:53AM (#42595012)
...they do. It's called "o1".
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