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Re:I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens by kolinko on Monday July 20, 2026 @04:26AM (#48975786)
Your fundamental math is wrong
Re:I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens by camgunz on Monday July 20, 2026 @04:33AM (#48975839)
no ur wrong
Re:I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens by faeyanpiraat on Monday July 20, 2026 @06:39AM (#48976931)
Well you both seem like well educated people, so can we bring in some thinking here and determine whether it is 2.5% or 10%?

How could this be verified?

I don't think I'm good enough at math and ai research to find a reliable way.

Re:I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens by juvvel on Monday July 20, 2026 @08:38AM (#48978004)
This reminds of sensitivity vs. specificity for medical tests. You essentially have a 2x2 matrix: Error vs. non-error on one axis, and detected vs. not detected on the other. If we assume that a reviewer LLM has 95% accuracy, meaning that it produces the correct result 95% of the time it (identifying errors as errors, and identifying non-errors as non-errors), you get the following: Of 100 cases, the output of 5 is wrong, and the output of 95 is correct. Of the 5 wrong outputs, the LLM correctly identifies 4.75 (95%) as wrong. But it will also create 4.75 false positives (5% of 95). Of the 95 correct ones, the LLM correctly identifies 90.25 (95%) as correct. Therefore it creates 0.25 false negatives. So the positive predictive value is low: When the reviewer LLM flags an error, it's actually only an error 50% of the time. On the other hand, the negative predictive value is high, so in ~99.7% of cases, there will be no error if the reviewer LLM didn't catch one. All of that is assuming that the actual accuracy of the reviewer LLM is truly a flat 95% and that the base error rate is truly only 5%. I think that in reality, LLMs perform better with a certain type of tasks / errors and 5% error rate is just an average.