[lowsong]

> They don’t even need to be deterministic checks - a shell script that wraps a `claude -p` - and maybe fetches some online resources to stuff into the context - can do your agent’s legal check for it.

No. It can't. If you think that injecting legal text into the context window and appending "make sure the output complies with this law" will solve your problems you have not understood how an LLM works. The kind of checks you are talking about cannot be codified.

[cadamsdotcom]

So we should give up before we even tried?

[lowsong]

Tried what? Using LLMs to produce software? I'd say the industry has collectively "tried" to do this for a while now and the results have been an unmitigated disaster.

Yes, we should "give up" on using LLMs, but certainly not for a lack of "trying".

[cadamsdotcom]

How’d you get so cynical, friend.

Come to the dark side - we have free tokens!