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Re:Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up by ethanwillis on Thursday September 04, 2025 @04:55AM (#45125133)
Seeing as your LLMs need the novel output of human brains to even exist or expand capabilities, quite a lot.

But even if it's not a lot, it's more than the number of LLMs that can invent new meaning which is a grand total of 0.

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Re:Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up by tjr on Thursday September 04, 2025 @07:12AM (#45125917)
If tomorrow, all human beings ceased to exist, barring any in-progress operations, LLMs would go silent, and the machinery they run on would eventually stop functioning.

If tomorrow, all LLMs ceased to exist, humans would carry on just fine, and likely build LLMs all over again, next time even better.

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