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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by skydhash on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:41AM (#44297931)
> The amazing thing about LLMs is that we still don’t know how (or why) they work!

You may want to take a course in machine learning and read a few papers.

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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by js8 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @09:30AM (#44298971)
Sorry, but that's reductionism. We don't know how human brain works, and that you won't get there by studying quantum electrodynamics.

LLMs are insanely complex systems and their emergent behavior is not explained by the algorithm alone.

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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by dboreham on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @09:32AM (#44299000)
Suspect you and the parent poster are thinking on different levels.
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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by whateverbrah on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @10:42AM (#44299877)
That was sarcasm by the poster, in case you failed to notice.
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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by semiquaver on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:15PM (#44300792)
Parent is right. We know mechanically how LLMs are trained and used but why they work as well as they do is very much not known.
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