[tptacek]

I'm not interested in this Calvinball argument. The post we're commenting on makes a clear claim: an LLM hallucinating entire APIs. Not surreptitiously sneaking subtly shitty stuff past a compiler.

This is my problem: not that people are cynical about LLM-assisted coding, but that they themselves are hallucinating arguments about it, expecting their readers to nod along. Not happening here.

[kgwgk]

> The post we're commenting on makes a clear claim: an LLM hallucinating entire APIs

You made a similar claim: LLMs invent APIs that don't exist

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461381

[tptacek]

The AES block cipher core: also grievously insecure if used naively, without understanding what a block cipher can and can't do, by itself. Thus also an LLM call.