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by DrSiemer 763 days ago
Ah, so that's why all my code has become more concise and efficient and I've learned countless new tricks that I did not know before and probably would have never found without LLM's.

Too bad I'm "engaging with them wrong", I could have sworn it was helping me.

Seriously though, claiming LLM's don't have any higher level understanding of right and wrong and then extrapolating that to "they cannot possibly be used to improve things" is a very stubborn refusal of the fact that the most logical answer to the question "what can be improved here" is... actual improvements.

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They do not have any higher level understanding of right and wrong. You lead the model on by telling it to improve something, so it will rework the code in question and tell you that it's an improvement. Regardless or not if it is. Coding is about 70% subjective, 30% objective when it comes to figuring out improvements because the majority of improvements deal with business logic and things specific to your domain.