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> Compare this to hallucinations in regular prose, where you need a critical eye, strong intuitions and well developed fact checking skills to avoid sharing inf
by sublinear 2y ago
> Compare this to hallucinations in regular prose, where you need a critical eye, strong intuitions and well developed fact checking skills to avoid sharing information that’s incorrect and directly harmful to your reputation
Ah so you mean... actually doing work. Yeah writing code has the same difficulty, you know. It's not enough to merely get something to compile and run without errors.
> With code you get a powerful form of fact checking for free. Run the code, see if it works.
No, this would be coding by coincidence. Even the most atrociously bad prose writers don't exactly go around just saying random words from a dictionary or vaguely (mis)quoting Shakespeare hoping to be understood.
- Velorivox 2y agoNot just that, “it works” is a very, very low bar to have for your code. To illustrate, the other day I tested an LLM by having it create a REST API. I asked for an end point where I could update a particular field of the record (think liking a post). Then I decided to add on more functionality and asked for the ability to update all the other fields… As you can guess, it gave me one endpoint per field for that entity. Sure, “it works”…
- trollbridge 2y agoThere are human developers who do the same thing…
- skydhash 2y agoThere are humans that do extreme sports just for the thrill. I still don't want my car to have a feature that can got it to throw itself off a cliff.
- drekipus 2y ago> Even the most atrociously bad prose writers don't exactly go around just saying random words from a dictionary or vaguely (mis)quoting Shakespeare hoping to be understood. I actually do this (and I'm not proud of it)