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by allovertheworld 92 days ago
Focus on programming since they just bruteforce the type checkers/compilers to find out if their slop was correct the first time.

Basically an illusion. Imagine if they focused on medical tech instead? You cant bruteforce vaccines or radiation therapy
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petcat 92 days ago
> they just bruteforce the type checkers/compilers to find out if their slop was correct

Have you used an AI coding model at all in the last year and a half? I think your knowledge is pretty outdated now.

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allovertheworld 92 days ago
Yes, gpt 5.4 always tries to compile/check my c++ code after every prompt. Despite it being in my AGENTS.md to never run builds. Then I have to explicitly mention it, but it will do it again randomly after.

What this means is the training/RL was trained with this workflow ;) But as you can tell, this workflow has no uses outside programming. Its just a hack to make it seem like the model is smart, but in fact its just them performing loops to get it right.

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dana321 92 days ago
All the models ignore specific instructions most of the time.

It requires follow-up instructions to get it to do what you want.

By the time its farted around and you have farted around reprompting it you could have done the change yourself.

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