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Re:Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don... by bigstrat2003 on Monday October 19, 2026 @11:05PM (#50160880)
The LLMs don't know a single thing. That's not how the technology works. It's a statistical correlation, not understanding.
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Re:Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don... by fillok5686 on Monday October 19, 2026 @11:53PM (#50161162)
I don't think the distinction between statistical correlation and understanding is as clear-cut as you're suggesting.

For example, Li et al. (2023), Emergent World Representations, showed that a GPT model trained only to predict Othello moves developed an internal representation of the board state, without being explicitly taught the rules or board structure.

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