[evrimoztamur]

Your fixation is a result of the fact that interacting with LLM coding tools is much like playing a slot machine, it grabs and chokeholds your gambling instincts. You're rolling dice for the perfect result without much thought.

[rjpower9000]

Good insight.

That's a better description than what I came up with, "Tiktok for engineers". LLMs probably compound the issue, with that hope of a magic outcome. Though I've had many problems pre-LLM where I was plowing through it myself and couldn't let up...

[jimbob45]

Is there any progress toward more deterministic AI? Like seeding with predictable values or a nanny AI that discards hallucinations? I know the smartest people in the world are working on this stuff so I’m sure they’ve thought of everything before me but I don’t know where to seek out layman’s news on cutting-edge AI developments that aren’t just “we threw more compute and tokens at it”.

[sbierwagen]

Over the last year and change I've generated 70 thousand images on civitai.com, a website that hosts neural net image generation models. (For porn, obviously)

Twenty out of a hundred gens are malformed horrors. Seventy out of a hundred are boring or cack-handed. Nine are interesting and worth exploring. And one out of a hundred I would say the algorithm accidentally produces real art.

Roll that one out of a hundred too many times when you're just starting out, and, well, you end up like me.

[amelius]

I'm sure they are working hard to tell the LLM how to think and where it went wrong.

[rjpower9000]

It's true you're still working, but it's a different, more distracted effort: you put the LLM on something for a while and then come back.

Sometimes it does it right, some times not. I can see the relation to gambling if, say, it does it right 50% of the time. If I had been taking a more scientific approach to the problem and had a clear direction of what I wanted to test, I suspect I wouldn't have gotten quite as "stuck".

[munificent]

That mixed with a dash of simulated social interaction making you not want to thwart your AI "partner" and give up.