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It isn't an abstraction. Not everything is an abstraction. There is a long history of tools which are not abstractions. Linters. Static code analysis. Debuggers
by danielmarkbruce 2y ago
It isn't an abstraction. Not everything is an abstraction. There is a long history of tools which are not abstractions. Linters. Static code analysis. Debuggers. Profiling tools. Autocomplete. IDEs.
- SaucyWrong 2y agoI can’t tell if this is an argument against the parent or just a semantic correction. Assuming the former, I’ll point out that every tool classification you’ve mentioned has expected correct and incorrect behavior, and LLM tools…don’t. When LLMs produce incorrect or unexpected results, the refrain is, inevitably, “LLMs just be that way sometimes.” Which doesn’t invalidate them as a tool, but they are in a class of their own in that regard.
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoIt's not a semantic issue. Yeah, they are generally probabilistic. That has nothing to do with abstraction. There are good abstractions built on top of probabilistic concepts, like rngs, crypto libraries etc.