alt Hacker NewsUngrounded LLM outputs are a bit like your dreams. Without anything to test hypotheses against, stuff can pop in and out of existence and physics is just advice.
Ground your LLM. Tests, documentation, give it many ways to run the thing its reasoning about. It needs to be able to test its hypotheses on its own.
Take yourself out of that loop so you only find out once it's sure.
Love LLMs gonna keep using them. It feels like your suggested approach is expensive, in terms of tokens. I feel (second time I say this) that when I steer the process I get pretty good results vs my coworkers that let the LLMs run away. I do have data on our token usage, not much in terms of quality of the delivery.
I keep thinking about the c compiler implementation that anthropic shared earlier in the year that had all the requirements you mention and arguably wasn’t that great.