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Re:LLM Inevitabilism by Aeolun on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @07:26PM (#44576994)
> absolutely unacceptable to anyone calling themselves an Engineer

Isn’t that exactly what engineers do? Even very strong bridges aren’t designed to survive every possible eventuality.

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Re:LLM Inevitabilism by bluefirebrand on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @08:02PM (#44577251)
No

I'm talking about engineering a bridge for 50 cars that collapses at 51, not engineering a bridge for 500 cars that is only expected to get 50

Engineering does require tradeoffs of course. But that's not what the minimum possible quality is

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Re:LLM Inevitabilism by wrs on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @07:50PM (#44577175)
That's what a "margin of error" is. The margin of error of a bridge is predictable thanks to well-established techniques of physical analysis.

An LLM system, on the other hand, can fail because you moved some punctuation around.

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Re:LLM Inevitabilism by bluefirebrand on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @02:08PM (#44585221)
> An LLM system, on the other hand, can fail because you moved some punctuation around

An LLM system can fail without changing anything, it could just fail more or less randomly without any way to diagnose why it happened

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