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by speff 144 days ago
Framed this way, it's useful for saving time creating or finding those snippets at least.
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Yeh, you are right. A snippet for they would have taken longer than booting an agent and let it hallucinate for—loop parameters that didn’t even exist.

This hasn't been the case in my experience, but I don't doubt it can happen.
I still think that's missing the point of LLMs; they're sources of plausible text continuations. Their strength is using them in places where the actual semantics of their output isn't important.