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by dsign 38 days ago
My experience with questions to LLM is that they mimic reddit a lot: ask them an apparently simple thing that is not possible, and they will bend backwards to tell you it's possible and give you tons of convoluted possible solutions. Ask them a thing that is possible but complicated, and they will be overly dismissive. The good thing however is that between those two banks there's a wide river of utility...more often than not they'll at least mention things I haven't considered before.
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I cannot fathom how people fall into the trap of thinking that LLMs have a consistent world view on any of the users bugbears (what would be an opinion in a human). CoT is a work-around and doesn't persist across sessions. "You are absolutely correct" and "I should not have deleted your production DB" prove the anthropomorphic facade only a facade.
shallow immediate confident authoritative answers; upon inspection falls apart immediately. sometimes can be beaten by repeat questioning into wisdom. by accident, beauty witnessing unfathomable NPC stupidity, but also invokes a hidden genius operating as though designed to troll first

ya, that is my experience as well