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Did we just discover a new halting problem?

• babyshake 3y ago
  It doesn't seem like this should be the case. Humans can estimate the complexity of a task without performing the task. Why couldn't an advanced LLM?
  • SketchySeaBeast 3y ago
    Isn't a large part of software development's difficulty that people can't actually do that?
  • bumby 3y ago
    >Humans can estimate the complexity of a task without performing the task. I would argue this ability drops precipitously as the complexity grows. That's part of the reason cost and schedule estimates are notoriously unreliable on big projects.