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genidoitoday at 5:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

> So I asked him. "What is your developer workflow using Copilot?" I was not prepared for the answer he gave me:

I don’t know why I get annoyed when LLM’s and their output are casually referred to as “he/she”, particularly by non-techies, but I do. There’s something about personifying an LLM that seems incorrect. Perhaps it’s a fear being stoked that increasingly, people might actually be thinking of LLM’s as living beings.


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laszlokortetoday at 5:48 PM

Isn't the line you quoted about asking a real person co-worker?

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daemonologisttoday at 5:49 PM

I'm pretty sure they're referring to their coworker as "he," not an LLM.