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Re:LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:05AM (#46614268)
And is the electric one intelligent? :p
Re:LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:04AM (#46614262)
I also cannot calculate the square root of 472629462.
My pocket calculator is not intelligent. Nor are LLMs.
Optimising for Trust
Re:LLM Inevitabilism
on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @02:47AM (#44568555)
This is how I approach the tools too. I believe it’s a healthy approach, but who’s to say whether I’m just a naysayer. shrug
Re:LLM Inevitabilism
on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @02:45AM (#44568532)
100%. Not a new phenomenon at all, just the latest bogeyman for the inevitabilists to point to in their predestination arguments.
My aim is only to point it out - people are quite comfortable rejecting predestination arguments coming from eg. physics or religion, but are still awed by “AI is inevitable”.
LLM Inevitabilism
Saying the quiet part out loud
Cull your dependencies
Re:Does the software industry learn?
on Thursday January 27, 2022 @03:53AM (#30097952)
You see, this sounds really cool. So what kinds of problems fit COBOL? And why did "we" conclude from this that general purpose languages were the solution, rather than building many different languages for specific problems? Did "we" even conclude that, or is that just my impression, 50 years later?