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filoeleven • 01/16/2026 • 2 replies • view on HN

  "LLMs reliably fail at abstraction."
  "This limitation will go away soon."
  "Hallucinations haven't."
  "I found a workaround for that."
  "That doesn't work for most things."
  "Then don't use LLMs for most things."

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johnfn • 01/21/2026

    "Autocomplete is great!"
    "It doesn't work in bash"
    "Then don't use it in bash."
I don't see what's wrong with this argument, and I certainly don't see it as a proof that the particular technology is actually useless, as you seem to be suggesting.
baq • 01/16/2026

Um, yes? Except ‘most things’ are not much at all by volume.