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At least compilers are deterministic and their operation can be easily inspected.

• pjmlp 2y ago
  Said someone that never researched miscompilation issues or UB. They are mostly deterministic. LLMs can also provide the equivalent of an -S switch.
  • Yoric 2y ago
    You are correct, of course, but the general consensus is that (in languages other than C++) compilers are largely close enough to deterministic that the difference doesn't matter. LLMs, by design, don't even attempt to go in this direction. Not entirely sure what I'd do with an LLM -S switch. Debug the output/intermediate representation of the LLM, knowing that the next time I press "enter", it's probably going to give me an entirely different output?
    • pjmlp 2y ago
      It won't be much different from human computers in that regard, isn't after all what everyone is looking for as replacement?
      • Yoric 2y ago
        Probably, yes. But then, aren't we all happy that we moved from human computers and to electronic computers with programming languages and compilers?
  • bee_rider 2y ago
    The first is a bug in the compiler, the second is a bug in your code.
    • pjmlp 2y ago
      Not everyone agrees, see Linus.