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Re:Teaching LLMs how to solid model on Thursday April 24, 2025 @05:28AM (#43780738)
>While I wouldn't trust current setups, there's no obvious reason why even a mere LLM cannot be used to explore the design space when the output can be simulated to test its suitability as a solution

Having to test every assertation sounds like a not particularly useful application, and the more variables there are the more it seems to be about throwing completely random things at the wall and hoping it works

You should use a tool for it's purpose, relying on text prediction to predict clarity is like relying on teams icons being green to actual productivity; a very vague, incidentally sometimes coinciding factor.

You could use text predictor for things that rely on "how would this sentence usually complete" and get right answers. But that is a very narrow field, I can mostly imagine entertainment benefiting a lot.

You could misuse text predictor for things like "is this <symptom> alarming?" and get a response that is statistically likely in the training material, but could be completely inverse for the person asking, again having very high cost for failing to do what it was never meant to. You can often demonstrate the trap by re-rolling your answer for any question a couple times and seeing how the answer often varies mild-to-completely-reverse depending on whatever seed you land.

Re:Teaching LLMs how to solid model on Thursday April 24, 2025 @04:14AM (#43780348)
I've only found useful answers for when I've begun something from completely zero. Things I've got even a reasonable grasp on I start to spot large dangerous holes a model very confidently claims is the right solution. Stuff like bringing camping stove inside a tent to avoid rainy weather, nevermind it being suicide at the same time.

>I web search maybe 10% of what I did six months ago.

Me too, though this is more driven by the total cliff-fall of web search result quality

Re:Teaching LLMs how to solid model on Thursday April 24, 2025 @04:11AM (#43780328)
I think the cost of mistakes is the major driving force behind where you can adopt tools like these. Generating a picture of a chair with five legs? No big deal. Generating supports for a bridge that'll collapse next week? Big problem.

> It will point out things that are unclear, etc. You can go far beyond just micro managing incremental edits to some thing.

When prompted an LLM will also point it out when it's perfectly clear. LLM is just text prediction, not magic

Re:Like to play alone? Ubisoft is still watching you on Thursday April 24, 2025 @03:55AM (#43780235)
Always online DRM has been the bane of law abiding citizens for a long while now, punishing those who pay for goods and services, limiting their options of when and how they can use the thing they just bought, all the while getting to see their pirate counterparts enjoy better performance and getting to keep it and do whatever they want with it.

It's really infuriating companies like these make it so hard to do the right thing.

>and the rise of AI tools replacing coordination roles

Despite working in technology sector that should see fads sooner than other fields, I've not seen or heard of any coordination roles being replaced with AI in any level of management yet, or even talks about incorporating it