Re:We put a coding agent in a while loop
by Dilettante_ on Monday August 25, 2025 @11:06AM
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>until it can finally stop
Pretty sure even that is still over-anthropomorphising. The LLM just generates tokens, doesn't matter whether the next token is "strawberry" or "\STOP".
Even talking about "goals" is a bit ehhh, it's the machine's "goal" to generate tokens the same way it's the Sun's "goal" to shine.
Then again, if we're deconstructing it that far, I'd "de-anthropomorphise" humans in much the same way, so...
Pretty sure even that is still over-anthropomorphising. The LLM just generates tokens, doesn't matter whether the next token is "strawberry" or "\STOP".
Even talking about "goals" is a bit ehhh, it's the machine's "goal" to generate tokens the same way it's the Sun's "goal" to shine.
Then again, if we're deconstructing it that far, I'd "de-anthropomorphise" humans in much the same way, so...