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by throw310822 32 days ago
> Imagine that a systems can't be trusted. That 1+1 isn't always 2. Only 99% of the time.

Easy to imagine. Every human being is such a system- correct very often (but never 100% of the times) in certain domains, tragically wrong in others. Like this guy thinking that "AI hype can't sustain itself", with an argument that makes no sense at all. LLMs don't replace computers and algorithms, they replace human beings. They just need to be more correct than humans in several domains, not infallible. Or even slightly less correct, but substantially cheaper.

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LLM by their nature can't really replace people. Companies found this out from experience, as they fired and rehired people multiple times, you've seen the articles.
> LLM by their nature can't really replace people

What LLMs could or couldn't do in 2026 doesn't necessarily say anything about their nature, given that they're a rapidly evolving technology that has made giant progress in the space of a few years.