alt Hacker NewsIf you think a language model can't check their work, then you are using the tools wrong. Plain and simple.
Modern models are quite capable at surfacing and validating their assumptions and checking correctness of solutions.
Oversight helps you build confidence in the solutions. Is it perfect, no.. but way better then most engineers I also ask to check things.
No they don't. To be able to "check one's work", implies that they can be held accountable, that they can tell apart right from wrong, when in reality they're merely text predictors.
If you think an LLMs can check their work, then you are doing a terrible job at writing software. Plain and simple.
They even go as far as "cheating", so tests fail, writing incorrect tests, or straight out leaking code (lol) like the latest Claude Code blunder. Is this the tool the original comment "is using wrong, plain and simple"? Or do you have access to some other model that works in a wildly different way than generating text predictions?