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1. gdubs+Z[view] [source] 2025-06-02 21:18:21
>>tablet+(OP)
One thing that I find truly amazing is just the simple fact that you can now be fuzzy with the input you give a computer, and get something meaningful in return. Like, as someone who grew up learning to code in the 90s it always seemed like science fiction that we'd get to a point where you could give a computer some vague human level instructions and get it more or less do what you want.
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2. csalle+z1[view] [source] 2025-06-02 21:22:05
>>gdubs+Z
It's mind blowing. At least 1-2x/week I find myself shocked that this is the reality we live in
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3. malfis+Y5[view] [source] 2025-06-02 21:45:03
>>csalle+z1
Today I had a dentist appointment and the dentist suggested I switch toothpaste lines to see if something else works for my sensitivity better.

I am predisposed to canker sores and if I use a toothpaste with SLS in it I'll get them. But a lot of the SLS free toothpastes are new age hippy stuff and is also fluoride free.

I went to chatgpt and asked it to suggest a toothpaste that was both SLS free and had fluoride. Pretty simple ask right?

It came back with two suggestions. It's top suggestion had SLS, it's backup suggestion lacked fluoride.

Yes, it is mind blowing the world we live in. Executives want to turn our code bases over to these tools

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4. gertle+T8[view] [source] 2025-06-02 22:03:25
>>malfis+Y5
Feels like you're comparing how LLMs handle unstandardized and incomplete marketing-crap that is virtually all product pages on the internet, and how LLMs handle the corpus of code on the internet that can generally be trusted to be at least semi functional (compiles or at least lints; and often easily fixed when not 100%).

Two very different combinations it seems to me...

If the former combination was working, we'd be using chatgpt to fill our amazon carts by now. We'd probably be sanity checking the contents, but expecting pretty good initial results. That's where the suitability of AI for lots of coding-type work feels like it's at.

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5. layer8+Fe[view] [source] 2025-06-02 22:37:11
>>gertle+T8
At the very least, it demonstrates that you can’t trust LLMs to correctly assess that they couldn’t find the necessary information, or if they do internally, to tell you that they couldn’t. The analogous gaps of awareness and acknowledgment likely apply to their reasoning about code.
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