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Fair point—and honestly, we’re still figuring that out. Whether LLMs can be reliably "steered" isn’t settled yet because the control systems themselves are stil
by labrador 2y ago
Fair point—and honestly, we’re still figuring that out. Whether LLMs can be reliably "steered" isn’t settled yet because the control systems themselves are still under construction. Part of that process is exactly what’s happening now: users testing the limits, flagging failures, and feeding that back into the loop.
In some cases, the accuracy just isn’t there (Sabrina Hofstadter’s critique comes to mind). But in others—boilerplate writing, brainstorming—the bar is lower, and a little unpredictability is acceptable or even useful.
It’s worth remembering: we didn’t get stable aircraft on the first try either. Early designs were unstable and dangerous until decades of iteration locked in what worked. We may still be in the equivalent of the Wright Brothers era for LLM control systems.
- techpineapple 2y agoSome of this is a bit myopic on my part. I’m a software engineer, I want to know if I’ll have a job in five years. You’re certainly right on a mountain of writing tasks we have to accomplish that don’t matter that much. Some of this is my own fighting with the experience of vibe coding. I want it to be as good as the hype and when it’s not it frustrates me,
- labrador 2y agoAbout vibe coding: I'm not feeling it. I've spent too many hours reading code to track down Heisenbugs to believe vibe coders can just wish that away because LLMs take care of such things