Post #1362022
2026-03-31 15:52 UTC
Replies (3)
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@lagrangeinterpolator@awful.systems 2026-03-31 16:39
I'm sure these English instructions work because they feel like they work. Look, these LLMs feel really great for coding. If they don't work, that's because you didn't pay $200/month for the pro version and you didn't put enough boldface and all-caps words in the prompt. Also, I really feel like these homeopathic sugar pills cured my cold. I got better after I started taking them! No joke, I watched a talk once where some people used an LLM to model how certain users would behave in their scenario given their socioeconomic backgrounds. But they had a slight problem, which was that LLMs are nondeterministic and would of course often give different answers when prompted twice. Their solution was to literally use an automated tool that would try a bunch of different prompts until they happened to get one that would give consistent answers (at least on their dataset). I would call this the xkcd green jelly bean effect, but I guess if you call it "finetuning" then suddenly it sounds very proper and serious. (The cherry on top was that they never actually evaluated the output of the LLM, e.g. by seeing how consistent it was with actual user responses. They just had an LLM generate fiction and called it a day.)
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@fiat_lux@lemmy.world 2026-04-01 00:37
I don't work at one of those companies, just somewhere mainlining AI, so this answer might not satisfy your requirements. But the answer is very simple. The first thing anyone working in AI will tell you (maybe only internally?) is that the output is probabilistic not deterministic. By definition, that means it's not entirely consistent or reproducible, just... maybe close enough. I'm sure you already knew that though. However, from my perspective, even if it was deterministic, it wouldn't make a substantial difference here. For example, this file says I can't ask it to build a DoS script. Fine. But if I ask it to write a script that sends a request to a server, and then later I ask it to add a loop... I get a DoS script. It's a trivial hurdle at best, and doesn't even approach basic risk mitigation.
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@Architeuthis@awful.systems 2026-04-02 11:32
According to the claude code leak the state of the art is to be, like, really stern and authoritative when you are begging it to do its job: 