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> LLMs are not suitable for that kind of work. I wonder why not or you meant not suitable yet?
by menaerus 7d ago
> LLMs are not suitable for that kind of work.
I wonder why not or you meant not suitable yet?
- Systemerror7A69 7d agoThis is just speculation on my part, but LLMs work best when they get immediate, verifiable feedback on their task, and the kind of physical optimizations they mean might not give that to LLMs.
- menaerus 7d agoAlso a speculation but I'm almost certain that physical optimizations are first done through simulators running on a computer.
- amelius 7d agoYes, they are, but the most important subtasks of designing a CPU are not physics related. They are picking the right parameters for things like: how wide do I make this bus, how many registers do I put in the register file, how large do I make this cache, how deep do I make this pipeline, etc., etc. To find optimal parameters requires a lot of simulations, and humans do this, but LLMs could do them just as well and maybe better because they excel at tedious work.
- TeMPOraL 7d agoThe right way is to throw LLMs at building tools that reframe the problem into a shape LLMs are good at navigating, and then have LLMs use those tools to solve it.