They seem to be pretty good at language. One time i forgot the word “tact” and I was trying to remember it. I even asked some people and no one could think of the eord I was thinking of even after I described approximately what it meant. But I asked AI and it got it in one go.
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Sanctus@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Literally never had this happen. Every time I have caved after exhausting all other options the LLM has just made it worse.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Eheran@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
When was the last time you tried? GPT5 thinking is able to create 500 lines of code without a single error, repeatable, and add new features into it seamlessly too. Hours of work with older LLMs reduced to minutes, I really like how much it enables me to do with my limited spare time. Same with “actual” engineering, the numbers were all correct the last few times. So things it had to find a way to calculate and then figure out some assumptions and then do the math! Sometimes it gets the context wrong and since it pretty much never asks questions back, the result was absurd for me, but somewhat correct for a different context. Really good stuff.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Really good until you stop double checking it and it makes shit up. 🤦♂️
Go take your Ai apologist bullshit and feed it to the corporate simps.
Eheran@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The good thing is that in code, if it makes shit up it simply does not work the way it is supposed to.
You can keep your hatred to yourself, let alone the bullshit you make up.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
Until it leaves a security issue that isn’t immediately visible and your users get pwned.
Funny that you say “bullshit you make up”, when all LLMs do is hallucinate and sometimes, by coincidence, have a “correct” result.
Donkter@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I’ve come to realize that these crazed anti-ai people are just a product of history repeating itself. They would be the same leftists who were “anti-gmo”. When you dig into it you understand that they’re against Monsanto, which is cool and good, but the whole thing is so conflated in their heads that you can’t discuss the merits of GMOs whatsoever even though they’re purportedly progressive.
It’s a pattern, their heads in the right place for the most part. But the logic is just going a little haywire as they buy into hysteria. It’ll take a few years probably as the generations cycle.
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Perhaps, yes.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Also did you adequately describe your problem? Treat it like a human who knows how to program, but has no idea what the fuck you’re talking about. Just like a human you have to sit it down and talk to it before you have it write code.
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It gave you the wrong answer. One you called absurd. And then you said “Really good stuff.”
Not to get all dead internet, but are you an LLM?
I dont understand how people think this is going to change the world. Its like the c suite folks think they can fire 90% of their company and just feed their half baked ideas for making super hero sequels into an AI and sell us tickets to the poop that falls out, 15 fingers and all.
Eheran@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
So you physically read what I said and then just went with “my bias against LLMs was proven” and wrote this reply? At no point did you actually try to understand what I said? Sorry but are you an LLM?
But seriously. If you ask someone on the phone “is it raining” and the person says “not now but it did a moment ago”, do you think the person is a fucking idiot because obviously the sun has been and still is shining? Or perhaps the context is different (a different location)? Do you understand that now?
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
You seem upset by my comment, which i dont understand at all. Im sorry if I’ve offended you. I don’t have a bias against LLMs. They’re good at talking. Very convincing. I dont need help creating text to communicate with people, though.
Since you mention that this is helping you in your free time, then you might not be aware how much less useful it is in a commercial setting for coding.
I’ll also note, since you mentioned it in your initial comment, LLMs dont think. They can’t think. They never will think. Thats not what these things are designed to do, and there is no means by which they might start to think if they are just bigger or faster. Talking about AI systems like they are people makes them appear more capable than they are to those that dont understand how they work.
reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org 16 hours ago
Maybe use an LLM to improve your grammar. Sheesh. You’re an idiot.
abfarid@startrek.website 14 hours ago
Happened to me yesterday. I have an old 4K TV, every component I used to connect to it had HDMI 2.0+ capabilities. Neither laptop nor Steam Deck would output 4K60, only 4K30. Tried getting another cable and a hub, same result. And I know that my Chromecast outputs 4K60 to this TV, so I was extra confused. In my desperation, asked GPT-5 what was I missing, and it plainly told me that those old Samsung TVs turn off HDMI 2.0 support unless you explicitly turn it on in TV settings under “UHD Color”. Apparently Chromecast was doing chroma subsampling, but computers refused and wanted full HDMI 2.0 bandwidth…
TehBamski@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Context is highly important in this scenario. Asking it how many people live in [insert country and then province/state], and it’ll be accurate a high percentage of the time. As compared to asking it, [insert historical geo-political question], and it won’t be able to.
Also, I have found it can depend on which LLM you ask said question to. I have found Perplexity to be my go to LLM of choice, as it acts like an LLM ‘server’ in selecting the best LLM for the task at hand. Here’s Perplexity’s Wikipedia page if you want to learn more.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
They’re by no means the end-all solution. And they usually aren’t my first choice.
But when I’m out of ideas prompting gemini with a couple sentences hyper-specifically describing a problem, it has given me something actionable. I’ve had almost no success with asking it for specific instructions without specific details about what I’m doing. That’s when it just makes shit up.
But a recent example. I was trying to re-install windows on a lenovo ARM laptop. Lenovos own docs were generic for all their laptops, and intended for x86. You could not use just any windows iso. While I was able to figure out how to create the recovery image media for the specific device at hand, there were no instructions on how to actually use it, and entering the BIOS didn’t have any relevant entries.
Writing half a dozen sentences describing this into Gemini, instantly informed that there is a tiny pin-hole button on the laptop that boots into a special separate menu that isn’t in the bios. A lo, that was it.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I do use LLMs if I forget to plan one of my tabletop sessions. I will fully admit they are great at that. Love 'em for making encounters.