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Re:Replace OCR with Vision Language Models on Thursday February 27, 2025 @12:37PM (#43196552)
And by using two different systems (say Gem plus ChatGPT) you essentially reduce chances of hallucination to zero, no? You would need to be VERY unlucky to find to LLMs hallucinating the exact same response.
This! Serious economics papers are always about studying different progressive tax functions. Nobody cares about specific thresholds to separate "the rich" from the rest. It's a moot point because wealth is a continuous variable (approximately Pareto with tail index 2, to be precise).
Re:New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code on Monday February 17, 2025 @12:20AM (#43075446)
Well productivity is output per unit of labor no? And labor is measured in hours.
Re:New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code on Monday February 17, 2025 @12:18AM (#43075434)
What the post describes is kids misusing AI. You can always ask AI how a code works. Ask GPT, then have Claude review it, then have Gem chip in. Ask all of them to ELI5 every single detail of the code, and then try to explain it yourself, in your own words.

I'm sorry but for many of us socially awkward folk having to rely on begging to solve coding tasks felt like chewing glass.

Re:New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code on Monday February 17, 2025 @12:16AM (#43075427)
How about using LLMs and asking them dozens of questions until you understand everything very well?