alt Hacker NewsExactly. If you're an expert on the topic, framework, or library, even the best LLMs are still underwhelming. Even for 15 line snippets, if you're very familiar with the programming language, you'd have written it differently.
An LLM is like a low IQ person with vast knowledge.
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abc42 • today at 8:54 AM
>If you're an expert on the topic, framework, or library, even the best LLMs are still underwhelming.
How many people on this planet are experts on every topic?
>An LLM is like a low IQ person with vast knowledge.
Are you aware that frontier models have scored in the 135-195 IQ range when they have been tested? How smart are you?
robrenaud • today at 8:19 AM
Does this gel with top mathematicans basically begging OpenAI to stop solving their open problems?
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I have a PhD and Opus 5.5 came up with a novel solution to solve a problem in my area of research that I, and other experts in the field, had been unable to. This was from very general prompting it to find improvements over published methods.