Post #3062630
2025-10-07 09:38 UTC
@reinouts@mastodon.green @nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop
They _don't_ write code. They statistically assemble code sniplets from what they were trained on, given a certain prompt. An LLM has no understanding of "variable" or "function".
And an Excel table is basically a lost cause, because Copilot isn't doing a sum, it's trying to predict an outcome based on training, and there simply weren't many cases where the answer was "15" given that promt. An LLM can't compute a sum.
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@reinouts@mastodon.green 2025-10-07 09:59
@knud@mastodon.social @nicolaromano@qoto.org @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop I agree that LLMs do not have an actual understanding of what a function is, and that they are ill-suited to perform calculations. However, for instance GPT-4o mini can assemble an Excel formula just fine. This is what I mean: