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> I’m shocked how many otherwise well-informed people don’t understand or agree with this very fundamental fact of just how little we actually understand about

> I’m shocked how many otherwise well-informed people don’t understand or agree with this very fundamental fact of just how little we actually understand about why LLMs work as well as they do. Well-informed people understand that LLMs work as well as they do for the same reasons as horoscopes, fortune-telling and homeopathy.

ohyoutravel 8d ago
They work great for banging out POC apps or writing boilerplate code. This is a real use.
- nvme0n1p1 8d ago
  Homeopathy triggers the placebo effect. That is a real use.
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strken 8d ago
If horoscopes and homeopathy can generate tests, then call me a Pisces and pass me the singular molecule of deadly nightshade toxin.
- collingreen 7d ago
  Be careful what you wish for. This weekend in tearing out hundreds of crappy tests that got vibed into a codebase.
- KellyCriterion 7d ago
  ...well, you could train an LLM on whatever horoscopes and then ask it :-?