alt Hacker NewsWe've been living in that world since the invention of the compiler ("automatic programming"). Few people write machine code any more. If you think of LLMs as a new variety of compiler, a lot of their shortcomings are easier to describe.
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bdangubic • last Tuesday at 11:48 PM
last thing I want is non-deterministic compiler, do not vibe this analogy at all…
moffkalast • last Wednesday at 10:15 AM
Finally we've invented a compiler that we can yell at when it gives bullshit errors. I really missed that with gcc.
My compiler runs on my computer and produces the same machine code given the same input. Neither of these are true with AI.