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LLMs can't write code. They don't have capacity to understand logical or temporal relationships, which is the core competency of coding. They can form syntact
by otabdeveloper4 1y ago
LLMs can't write code.
They don't have capacity to understand logical or temporal relationships, which is the core competency of coding.
They can form syntactically valid strings in a formal language, which isn't the same thing as coding.
- stavros 1y agoHmm, I guess I better throw away all this working code they wrote, then.
- otabdeveloper4 1y agoSee my second paragraph. "Working" (aka syntactically correct) code is not the significant and difficult part of coding.
- stavros 1y agoI don't care if the code works because it was formed because of temporal understanding or if it works because an LLM predicted enough tokens correctly, I care that it works.
- throw5425 1y agoYou can rationalize it any way you want. I don't care what they capacity they have, or if they syntactically whatever, or any academic thing. In practice, they work. That's all it matters.
- otabdeveloper4 1y ago> In practice, they work. Not really. You'll understand once you start trying to use the code they produce seriously.