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by lxgr 550 days ago
That's because we're currently largely not using them correctly, i.e. hooked up to RAG instead of hoping that they've memorized enough of the training data verbatim, which is arguably a waste of neurons in a foundational model.

Imaging being graded on your ability to quote exact line numbers of particular parts of your codebase as a senior software engineer without being able to look at it!

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