LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first

Re:LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance cri... by marginalia_nu on Friday March 06, 2026 @09:22PM (#47283801)

I didn't provide any constraints on how to draw it.

TBH I would have just rendered a font glyph, or failing that, grabbed an image.

Drawing it with vector graphics programmatically is very hard, but a decent programmer would and should push back on that.

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Re:LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance cri... by zeroxfe on Friday March 06, 2026 @09:32PM (#47283853)

> TBH I would have just rendered a font glyph, or failing that, grabbed an image.

If an LLM did that, people would be all up in arms about it cheating. :-)

For all its flaws, we seem to hold LLMs up to an unreasonably high bar.

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Re:LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance cri... by marginalia_nu on Friday March 06, 2026 @09:46PM (#47283933)

That's the job description for a good programmer though. Question assumptions and requirements, and then find the simplest solution that does the job.

Just about anyone can eventually come up with a hideously convoluted HeraldicImageryEngineImplFactory<FleurDeLis>.

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