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by quectophoton 406 days ago
I don't want to add more to your fears, but also remember that LLMs have been trained on decades worth of Python code that assumes the presence of the GIL.
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This could, indeed, be quite catastrophic.

I wonder if companies will start adding this to their system prompts.

Suppose they do. How is the LLM supposed to build a model of what will or won't break without a GIL purely from a textual analysis?

Especially when they've already been force-fed with ungodly amounts of buggy threaded code that has been mistakenly advertised as bug-free simply because nobody managed to catch the problem with a fuzzer yet (and which is more likely to expose its faults in a no-GIL environment, even though it's still fundamentally broken with a GIL)?