Why “llms” is being discussed
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comparing LLMs to regex is like the OG dropbox comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 ). I can understand this take 4-5 years ago but I have no idea…
by shepherdjerred · Sep 17, 2026
No it wasn't. They didn't know 'what direction' to take, and the solution they posted was not in fact the direction the authors took, so evidently you don't know what you're tal…
by famouswaffles · Sep 17, 2026
> fixable and verifiable By people with a specific skill set. LLMs generation can also be fixed and verified by people with a certain skill set, and non-deterministic computing…
by egeozcan · Sep 17, 2026
I've seen a lot of LLM uses that are really just zero/few-shot classifiers with a lot of extra steps, so it is interesting to see more models that are taking advantage of a…
by suresk · Sep 17, 2026
> I would have guessed that reliably identifying LLM generated text was not possible It depends what you mean by "reliably." If you mean, "we should be comfortable relying on th…
by akersten · Sep 17, 2026
This makes me think of something I hate about how LLMs write CLI scripts. Even with the same model on the same day, there's never any consistency with the way CLI arguments are…
by noduerme · Sep 17, 2026
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