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> They have no metacognition abilities, but they do have the ability to read the context window. Sure, but so can you-- you're going to have more insight into
by nullc 1y ago
> They have no metacognition abilities, but they do have the ability to read the context window.
Sure, but so can you-- you're going to have more insight into why they did it than they do-- because you've actually driven an LLM and have experience from doing so.
It's gonna look at the context window and make something up. The result will sound plausible but have no relation to what it actually did.
A fun example is to just make up the window yourself then ask the AI why it did the things above then watch it gaslight you. "I was testing to see if you were paying attention", "I forgot that a foobaz is not a bazfoo.", etc.
- gpm 1y agoI've found it to be almost universally the case that the LLM isn't better than me, just faster. That applies here, it does a worse job than I would if I did it, but it's a useful tool because it enables me to make queries that would cost too much of my time to do myself. If the query returns something interesting, or just unexpected, that's at least a signal that I might want to invest my own time into it.