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dehrmannlast Saturday at 8:02 PM1 replyview on HN

> dopamine hits from irregular and uncertain outcomes

Like the LLM getting the solution right?


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minimaxirlast Sunday at 1:58 AM

For the problems I work on with GPT 5.6 Sol and the checks and balances I have in place, I estimate:

- 80% of prompts get everything correct and are confirmed correct with manual validation

- 19% of prompts make a minor mistake based on an ambiguity of the original prompt (user error not LLM error), but then reliably fixed in a followup prompt

- 1% of prompts causes more problems than it solves and is more pragmatic to just revert

For 99% good output, there isn't much of a dopamine rush when there is good output. The dopamine rushes are for the <1% odds.

From the other replies on this post, I suspect no one believes me, but I am offering these numbers in good faith.

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