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theoldgreybeard | 2 months ago

If it was a well understood property of calculators that they gave incorrect answers randomly then you need to adjust the way you use the tool accordingly.

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bigstrat2003|2 months ago

Uh yeah... I would not use that tool. A tool which doesn't do its job randomly is useless.

amrocha|2 months ago

Sorry, Utkar the manager will fire you if you don’t use his shitty calculator. If you take the time to check the output every time you’ll be fired for being too slow. Better pray the calculator doesn’t lie to you.

Forgeties79|2 months ago

Generally I’d ditch that tool because it doesn’t work. A calculator is supposed to calculate. If it can’t reliably calculate, then it’s not a functioning tool and I am tired of people insisting it is functioning properly.

LLM’s simply aren’t good enough for all the use cases some people insist they are. They’re powerful tools that have been far too broadly applied and there’s too much money and too many reputations being put on the line to acknowledge the obvious limitations. Frankly I’m sick of it.

I had somebody on HN a few months ago insist to me that because we value art and fiction, LLM’s being wrong when we need them to be correct (in ways that are also not always easy to identify) was desirable. I don’t even know what to do with that kind of logic other than chalk it up as trolling. I don’t want my computer to trick me into false solutions.