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by manishsharan 145 days ago
If I may ask, does the code produced by LLM follow best practices or patterns? What mental model do you use to understand or comprehend your codebase?

Please know that I am asking as I am curious and do not intend to be disrespectful.
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DrewADesign 145 days ago
And what’s the name of the company? I’m fixing to harvest some bug bounties.
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mjevans 145 days ago
Think of the LLM as a slightly lossy compression algorithm fed by various pattern classifiers that weight and bin inputs and outputs.

The user of the LLM provides a new input, which might or might not closely match the existing smudged together inputs to produce an output that's in the same general pattern as the outputs which would be expected among the training dataset.

We aren't anywhere near general intelligence yet.

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antonvs 144 days ago
Ignoring your last line, which is poorly defined, this view contradicts observable reality. It can’t explain an LLM’s ability to diagnose bugs in code it hasn’t seen before, exhibit a functional understanding of code it hasn’t seen before, explain what it’s seeing and doing to a human user, etc.

Functionally, on many suitably scoped tasks in areas like coding and mathematics, LLMs are already superintelligent relative to most humans - which may be part of why you’re having difficulty recognizing that.

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dankwizard 145 days ago
I get your sentiment but a lot of people on this forum forget that a lot of us are just working for the paycheck - I don't owe my company anything.

Do I know the code base like the back of my hand? Nope. Can I confidently talk to how certain functions work? Not a chance.

Can I deploy what the business wants? Yep. Can I throw error logs into LLMs and work out the cause of issues? Mostly.

I get some of you may want to go above and beyond for your company and truly create something beautiful but then guess what - That codebase is theirs. They aren't your family. Get paid and move on

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tuwtuwtuwtuw 145 days ago
Do you work as a consultant then? I've been with the same employer for a long time, so if my team creates a mess, I get to look at it daily.
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