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> absolutely unacceptable to anyone calling themselves an Engineer Isn’t that exactly what engineers do? Even very strong bridges aren’t designed to survive ev
by Aeolun 1y ago
> absolutely unacceptable to anyone calling themselves an Engineer
Isn’t that exactly what engineers do? Even very strong bridges aren’t designed to survive every possible eventuality.
- wrs 1y agoThat's what a "margin of error" is. The margin of error of a bridge is predictable thanks to well-established techniques of physical analysis. An LLM system, on the other hand, can fail because you moved some punctuation around.
- bluefirebrand 1y ago> An LLM system, on the other hand, can fail because you moved some punctuation around An LLM system can fail without changing anything, it could just fail more or less randomly without any way to diagnose why it happened
- bluefirebrand 1y agoNo I'm talking about engineering a bridge for 50 cars that collapses at 51, not engineering a bridge for 500 cars that is only expected to get 50 Engineering does require tradeoffs of course. But that's not what the minimum possible quality is