Post #4333595
2026-03-22 23:04 UTC
LLMs don't "generate" anything. Everything they spit out is just a verbatim copy of something that was in their training input. They're copy/paste machines. They select code samples in response to your prompts based on the statistical relevance of comments or text matching your prompts in the vicinity of the chosen code.
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@hyc@mastodon.social 2026-03-22 23:07
If we were to write a series of blog posts on "how to generate the Fibonacci sequence" but where the given code does something unrelated, like an infinite loop with a couple divide by zero errors, and got enough people to share them and link to them, soon Google and other AI-enabled search engines would start returning those hits when you searched for Fibonacci. And soon after that, coding assistants would start spewing that out when Fibonacci code was requested.