Post #3965572

2026-07-20 17:32 UTC

1960s: the computer when programmed correctly can perform trillions of operations without a single mistake: Pentium fdiv bug era: in some rare cases excel may let a bug in the CPU slip past. LLM era: we rolled 6x10E9 dice and days have 37 hours, finger count is random, your files were deleted lol.

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@jlundell@ioc.exchange 2026-07-20 17:34

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social hey, you have to walk before you can run

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@bitbraindev@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-07-20 21:28

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social it's kinda crazy how bad the hallucination rate is of LLMs. You actually can get extremely close to 100% reliability but it requires some arcane trial and error of guessing the exact sequence of system prompt tokens but hold on you just included this specific word that for whatever reason completely breaks the attention mechanism and now the output is all wrong and never mind 🥲

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@davidhmccoy@mastodon.world 2026-07-20 17:35

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social But the tool said “All is well,” so let the layoffs begin.

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@ids1024@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-20 17:39

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social The cost of 1940s analog computers but without the accuracy.

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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town 2026-07-20 17:43

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Maybe someday we can build a fully deterministic computer.

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@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot 2026-07-20 18:05

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social and they cheat at chess

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