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HN hivemind has already delivered but I've found that for "I can describe it but can't remember the name" an LLM will have a decent chance of surfacing the name
by mst 2y ago
HN hivemind has already delivered but I've found that for "I can describe it but can't remember the name" an LLM will have a decent chance of surfacing the name given the description (and is usually a very simple case to verify unlike much LLM output).
- sgerenser 2y agoChecked this with ChatGPT and it thought I was talking about WorldCom.
- mst 2y agoJust tried with Claude and it got it differently wrong. My first guess was that once it became a known good strategy, it proliferated, and therefore LLMs are pulling companies that did the thing but didn't pioneer the thing, but suggesting that gave me yet another wrong answer. I think I'm just going to file this under "apparently a pretty terrible case for the technique and I should adjust my heuristics as to when it's worth trying" at this point.
- sgerenser 2y agoChatGPT actually completely misunderstood the description, and cited WorldCom as using “aggressive accounting” to show excess profits, vs. TCI’s supposed “excess losses.” So it didn’t even manage to find another example of a company doing something similar to TCI.