Post #1017113
2026-04-03 15:42 UTC
David Hogg's article on LLMs in Astrophysics, "Why do we do Astrophysics?" is the most thoughtful critique I've yet read on the topic, and relevant for computer scientists and software developers: https://arxiv.org/html/2602.10181
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@llimllib@hachyderm.io 2026-04-03 15:51
> One idea or rule of thumb is perhaps that we should or could interact with an LLM only in the same ways that we would interact with a non-coauthor colleague... You might ask your colleague to help speed up your code, but you wouldn’t ask your colleague to write your code. I don't follow this bit though! Why wouldn't you ask your non-author colleague to write your code, especially if they were pretty good at it and you could verify that the result was correct?
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@sgillies@mastodon.social 2026-04-03 16:10
@llimllib@hachyderm.io thank you for linking this!