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I'd you have some tips for coming up with such tests, I would love to hear them. My Gmail username is the same as my HN username. Thank you!
by dotancohen 1mo ago
I'd you have some tips for coming up with such tests, I would love to hear them. My Gmail username is the same as my HN username. Thank you!
- cogman10 1mo agoIt's actually just a coding interview test that I liked to ask in the past. You can find it and others on leetcode. The reason I personally like my question is because it's pretty close to some of the real world work we do. It's mostly mundane and easy to bang out, but really easy for someone to do a n log n solution where an n solution exists. A good example (but not my question) would be something like "I have a list of People objects with a `first` and `last` name. Write a function which groups together all the People with the same last name in `your language of choice`"
- dotancohen 1mo agoLLMs have a problem with that type of question? I might try it later at home.
- cogman10 1mo agoNow a days? No. It's actually getting to be a bad question because they all push out about the exact same answer. But much earlier they did and, apparently, these really small models still do. At this point it serves as more of a smoke test for me. Success means little, failure means a lot.
- dotancohen 1mo agoTerrific, thank you.
- _zoltan_ 1mo agowhy is your actual benchmark question so secret?
- dotancohen 1mo agoProbably so it does not become a target to meet.
- cogman10 1mo agoBingo. I know that people that work on LLMs read sites like HN. Already my question is losing it's usefulness as most models pass it now a days, but not every model does. The "car wash" question is a good example of this happening. Pretty much every model now correctly answers that question because it gained enough notoriety that the LLM authors now train to avoid looking silly on it.