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by cyanydeez 65 days ago
too much lightning rock.

Determinism is what CPUs excel at; when they dont, its because of either bugs in the hardware, or in the software. in theory, those can be contained.

but the allusion that theres some third magic is silly.

LLMs are problematic because of the addiction, yes, but more so because they reas stack overflow and dont discard all the hacks, so those will srface. when you tell it "dont make mistakes" you might be pointing it to those underlying comments that say "OP, you forgot to..." or "the cuerent API is.." or "its 2025, we can now do x"

The major point on the nose is the LLM is working inside the branching logic but its not going to follow control flow. it has zero idea how anything will compile beyond a few ifs. And only if you canslice and dice the proper context like a DAG where its no poisoned by irrelevant but badly named methods or constants polluting its scope.