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troupotoday at 7:14 AM1 replyview on HN

> Finding patterns in large datasets is one of the things LLMs are really good at.

Where by "good at" you mean "are totally shit at"?

They routinely hallucinate things even on tiny datasets like codebases.


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post_belowtoday at 7:37 AM

I don't follow the logic that "it hallucinates so it's useless". In the context of codebases I know for sure that they can be useful. Large datasets too. Are they also really bad at some aspects of dealing with both? Absolutely. Dangerously, humorously bad sometimes.

But the latter doesn't invalidate the former.

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