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by phoehne 1226 days ago
Only when you’re asking for a memorized response. If you were at ask me to create a driver for a novel hardware device in Ada, there’s no memorized answers. I would have to work it out. I do that by creating mental models, which LLM’s don’t really have. It has a statistical encoding over the language space. Essentially, memorization.