Post #1688972
2026-04-25 00:41 UTC
@camertron True. Of course, the computer doing things for me is sort of the point.
That machine code in the executable binary I got running my source code through gcc? I also didn't write that.
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@camertron@ruby.social 2026-04-25 18:25
@mark For sure. Computers exist to automate tasks humans would rather not do. But it's a false equivalence to say LLMs are like compilers. Compilers are deterministic and verifiable. The instructions produced by the compiler follow directly from the higher-level code. LLMs are non-deterministic. The code they generate does not (at least, not formally or verifiably) follow from the prompt.