
Had a conversation with a friend this weekend
They have a phd in hard science (not comp sci)
They asked AI a detailed question in their domain
AI did a web search and presented results as absolute truth
Friend looks at source of this truth
It was him on a forum wildly speculating about the subject
Read the code, trust nothing
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For those of you who are so intellectually disabled that you can't comprehend even the topic of the discussion, let me clarify. The discussion is about trustworthiness of LLMs, benchmarked against compilers. "Do you need to read code produced by an LLM or can you trust it like you trust the compiler?" Some say LLMs are close enough to compilers. They're wrong. Some say LLMs aren't anywhere near compilers, because the former are non-deterministic and the latter are not. They're wrong too, because non-determinism isn't the defining difference. I hope this was clear enough to pierce the wall of your dumbery.
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