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> That moment led me to conclude that when LLM evangelists talk about reasoning and thinking, they are essentially bullshitting. If anyone tells you, it's alre
by eru 1y ago
> That moment led me to conclude that when LLM evangelists talk about reasoning and thinking, they are essentially bullshitting.
If anyone tells you, it's already perfect, they are bullshitting.
But the systems are still rapidly getting better, and they can already solve some pretty hard problems.
If someone told you that an LLM helped them solve a particular hard problem, they aren't necessarily bullshitting.
- Lapel2742 1y ago> If someone told you that an LLM helped them solve a particular hard problem, they aren't necessarily bullshitting. Yes, they clearly are not bullshitting. They would be bullshitting if they would tell me that the LLM "thinks" while helping them. Autocompletion and inline documentation was a godsend at their time. It solved the particular hard and heavy problem of kilos of manuals. It was a technical solution to a problem just like LLMs.
- rightbyte 1y agoToo bad those "kilos of manuals" stopped being made in the process. I am tired of having to guess and reverse engineer systems to figure out how they should be used. Be it wood chippers or programming frameworks. Just tell me.
- eru 1y agoWell, this development is older than LLMs. Btw, you can get kilos of manuals, if you are willing to pay. That's how the government and aviation works.