• Feyd@programming.dev
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    25 days ago

    There is a fundamental difference this post is pretending doesn’t exist.

    Trusting the abstractions of compilers and fundamental widely used libraries is not a problem because they are deterministic and battle tested.

    LLMs do not add a layer of abstraction. They produce code at the existing layer of abstraction.

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      25 days ago

      they’re also not equivalent because LLMs pretense is to remove the human from the equation, essentially saying that we don’t need that knowledge anymore. But people still do have that knowledge. Those telephone systems still work because someone knows how each part works. That will never be true for an LLM.