alt Hacker News>and then pulls the slot machine lever over and over
Does anyone really do this? You want verification and self-correction in a loop, not rerolling and cherrypicking. The non-determinism point is really tiresome to hear over and over.
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bigstrat2003 • today at 2:16 AM
> The non-determinism point is really tiresome to hear over and over.
When the problem is fixed, you'll stop hearing about it.
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girvo • today at 1:37 AM
> Does anyone really do this
Yes, lots of people. It’s a whole issue.
The slot machine metaphor gets thrown around a lot but it hasn’t really described my experience with LLMs since ~2024