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> Tell me a cron expression to run command on each third Monday of a month An LLM is probably the only thing which could tell you this.
by morelisp 3y ago
> Tell me a cron expression to run command on each third Monday of a month
An LLM is probably the only thing which could tell you this.
- ravenstine 3y agoI gotta say, LLMs are an epic solution to things like cron expressions, regexes, and date-time formatting templates.
- morelisp 3y agoYes, I'm sure in 2-3 years I'll be finding plenty of regexes analogous to that cron expression, like one matching balanced parentheses.
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- satvikpendem 3y agoWhy would only an LLM be able to tell you this?
- morelisp 3y agoBecause it needs to be hallucinated.
- satvikpendem 3y agoI don't understand, a Stack Overflow post could tell you the same thing as the LLM. Or are you just being sarcastic? Recent LLMs are fine in terms of smaller things like cron or regex, I use them daily, but yes, for larger pieces of code, they're more likely to be incorrect.
- morelisp 3y agoI mean yes an SO answer could also be wrong, or you could ask a human pathological liar, but these are much less likely to begin with, and it's far less likely they could "explain" their answer convincingly. > Recent LLMs are fine in terms of smaller things like cron This is obviously false given the contents of this thread. Indeed, SO (well, SU) got this right: https://superuser.com/questions/428807/run-a-cron-job-on-the-first-monday-of-every-month https://superuser.com/questions/428807/run-a-cron-job-on-the... And crontab(5) explicitly calls out why this is impossible: Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields — day of month, and day of week. If both fields are restricted (ie, aren't *), the command will be run when either field matches
- satvikpendem 3y ago> This is obviously false given the contents of this thread. Not in my experience. GPT4 works a lot better than previous LLMs. Have you used GPT4 yet? Typically in my experience people who talk about LLMs not being that useful (or "pathological liars") have not used them recently, or at all. So, I mean, not a useful opinion worth considering then.
- morelisp 3y agoSorry, I'm talking about the actual claims in this thread, not your religion.
- satvikpendem 3y agoI have an "actual claim" in this thread, but because mine doesn't agree with your beliefs about LLMs being bad, you ironically claim it's my religion instead, lol.
- morelisp 3y agoYour claim then seems to be that galkk is just plain lying? That seems uncharitable.