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by SCdF 178 days ago
Late to this, but my interpretation of the parent's point was eg: LLMs still often produce bad code, despite "reading" every book about programming ever written. Simplistically, they aren't taking the knowledge from those books, and applying them to the knowledge of the code they've scraped, they are just using the scraped output. You can then separately ask them about knowledge from those books, but then if you go back and get them to code again, they still won't follow the advice they just gave you.