alt Hacker NewsLLMs these days seem to have no problem using language semantics to conceptualize what’s happening in a program. This is my favorite use of an LLM, “why is this library doing x” and then it digs through the library itself in my venv to find an answer.
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tovej • today at 2:50 PM
That's not what the LLM is doing. It is guessing at what is happening by regurgitating some docs. It's a more expensive web search.
You also don't have a mental model if you need to ask the LLM about it. This is stuff you should be internalizing.
Yep, super-duper-google is an unequivocally good use case for LLMs.