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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by kelseydh on Thursday May 29, 2025 @02:33PM (#44128841)
The time where humans + computers in chess were better than just computers was not a long time. That era ended well over a decade ago. Might have been true for only 3-5 years.
Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by qsort on Thursday May 29, 2025 @02:41PM (#44128917)
Unrelated to the broader discussion, but that's an artifact of the time control. Humans add nothing to Stockfish in a 90+30 game, but correspondence chess, for instance, is played with modern engines and still has competitive interest.
Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by dwohnitmok on Thursday May 29, 2025 @03:05PM (#44129144)
It is not clear to me whether human input really matters in correspondence chess at this point either.

I mused about this several years ago and still haven't really gotten a clear answer one way or the other.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33022581