Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs
by troupo on Friday May 30, 2025 @01:47AM
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> LLMs follow instructions.
They don't
> Garbage in = garbage out generally.
Generally, this statement is false
> When attention is managed and a problem is well defined and necessary materials are available to it, they can perform rather well.
Keyword: can.
They can also not perform really well despite all the management and materials.
They can also work really well with loosey-goosey approach.
The reason is that they are non-deterministic systems whose performance is affected more by compute availability than by your unscientific random attempts at reverse engineering their behavior https://dmitriid.com/prompting-llms-is-not-engineering
They don't
> Garbage in = garbage out generally.
Generally, this statement is false
> When attention is managed and a problem is well defined and necessary materials are available to it, they can perform rather well.
Keyword: can.
They can also not perform really well despite all the management and materials.
They can also work really well with loosey-goosey approach.
The reason is that they are non-deterministic systems whose performance is affected more by compute availability than by your unscientific random attempts at reverse engineering their behavior https://dmitriid.com/prompting-llms-is-not-engineering