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leptonsyesterday at 7:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

If "the level of awareness that created a problem, cannot be used to fix the problem", then you're asking too much if you expect a human to reason about an LLM output when they are the ones that asked an LLM to do the thinking for them to begin with.


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thwartedyesterday at 7:54 PM

This feels like a rediscovering/rewording of Kernighan's Law:

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." ~ Brian Kernighan

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Uhhrrryesterday at 10:21 PM

In this case you would replace the human.

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