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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by wvenable on Thursday May 29, 2025 @10:21PM (#44132208)
I don't know how someone can legitimately say that they're useless. Perfect, no. But useless, also no.
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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by addaon on Friday May 30, 2025 @11:41AM (#44137330)
> I don't know how someone can legitimately say that they're useless.

Clearly, statistical models trained on this HN thread would output that sequence of tokens with high probability. Are you suggesting that a statement being probable in a text corpus is not a legitimate source of truth? Can you generalize that a little bit?

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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by wvenable on Friday May 30, 2025 @12:39PM (#44137887)
Who said anything about truth? We're talking about usefulness.
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