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Post #3062617

2025-10-06 17:48 UTC

@Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop If you use a hammer to eat soup you generally don't end up with good results. If you want to sum numbers use the sum function, not one that predicts the next most probable token. I dislike this type of bashing of LLMs because it's trivial to dismiss (ok they can't do trivial maths, but they can write an entire piece of software for me). There are much more risky outputs that could be used as an example. Funky Excel formulas have always existed...

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  • @fcalva@cyberplace.social 2025-10-06 18:30

    @nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop thing is they can barely write working python scripts and webshit. And that's for the state of the art models...

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  • @knud@mastodon.social 2025-10-06 19:26

    @nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop They are writing complete software for you in the same way they sum numbers. Only that you are able to easily spot that the summation gives the wrong result.

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  • @PalmAndNeedle@norden.social 2025-10-06 20:15

    @nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop "If you use a hammer to eat soup you generally don't end up with good results." Actually a damn good metaphor for using LMM to generate code. And no, if the method can't solve easy problems, why would you ever trust it to solve hard ones? That's fundamentally not how engineering works.

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  • @nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop ...An entire piece of software that does WHAT, though?? And when will its wrongness surface?

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  • @logorok@procial.tchncs.de 2025-10-07 04:37

    @nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop it’s not bashing of llms, it’s bashing of people who use llms without understanding what they do.

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  • @chucker@norden.social 2025-10-08 07:27

    @nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop but they’re *specifically* adding Copilot as a big new feature for a *spreadsheet*, so “isn’t a spreadsheet generally something where accurate arithmetic matters?” is a valid critique.

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