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> I pilot LLMs all day Love the metaphor. Planes are sophisticated machines capable of auto-piloting, but humans are still needed to ultimately pilot the beast
by bwfan123 4mo ago
> I pilot LLMs all day
Love the metaphor. Planes are sophisticated machines capable of auto-piloting, but humans are still needed to ultimately pilot the beast.
- esafak 4mo agoThere is a product called Microsoft Copilot...
- PantaloonFlames 4mo agoa slightly different metaphor. Copilot suggests it is next to you, helping you pilot... something else. The computer? The system? But "piloting the LLM" changes the relationship. The LLM is the thing that is being piloted.
- djeastm 4mo agoI think their metaphor is apt. Microsoft Copilot is, in modern terms, the "harness" that "co-pilots" the LLM it manages sessions for, with you as the "pilot". So you are still piloting the LLM. At least that's how it reads to me.
- chipsrafferty 4mo agoI thought it was, you're the pilot, copilot is your helper.
- altmanaltman 4mo agoWhat about autonomous drones then? They are not planes? The real reason we have pilots in commerical jets is that they are a failsafe because a mistake in your automated system can kill 100+ people and guess what? It still does from time to time even with a human piloting the "beast." It is not impossible to have fully automated planes. We just cannot afford to make any mistakes otherwise people will die so we keep pilots as failsafes. Nobody will die if your claude code hallucinates.
- alaaalawi 4mo agoYMMV but an LLM can hullicinate bug in programmed medical devices which may kill people in unexpected ways
- altmanaltman 4mo agoCompliance policies are very strict for industries like aviation and medical devices. You cannot just throw Claude at it legally speaking