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Re:Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose by pton_xd on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:15PM (#49323249)
> My model doesn't need to know a single line of python.

If I had to guess, the weights necessary to encode "how to program" are much larger than the final step of "output python."

Re:Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose by echelon on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:22PM (#49323297)
But the understanding of the language library ecosystem, or even better, your codebase, could let it execute faster and with less context usage.
Re:Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose by exe34 on Sunday August 16, 2026 @05:21PM (#49323800)
That's the bit I feel you can do with ragging - keep a large library of well described solutions and then find what you need from it at runtime.
Re:Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose by mathisfun123 on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:25PM (#49323329)
<THAT'S A BINGO>

ie what everyone asking for this fails to immediately realize.

Re:Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose by card_zero on Sunday August 16, 2026 @05:37PM (#49323962)
You're a bingo. It's obvious that a model could know no Python, since Python could not exist in the world in the first place.
Re:Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose by kennywinker on Sunday August 16, 2026 @06:06PM (#49324204)
the best llm for coding is the one that knows every programming language imagined by a caffeine-fuelled comp-sci student at 2am but never built.
Re:Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose by Retro_Dev on Sunday August 16, 2026 @06:15PM (#49324283)
if neuralink ever becomes a thing, thoughts about programming might be stolen for LLM training data lol
Re:Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose by mohamedkoubaa on Sunday August 16, 2026 @07:27PM (#49324850)
Sure but I bet this doesn't translate as well in this way to things like Erlang