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0 pointsbenreesman1y ago0 comments

Haha I’m not sure I agree about how useful CoPilot is in practice (there are certain tasks where it shines but all of the LLMs print invalid code routinely).

With that said you made me laugh out loud because I have a friend who knew two people trying to LLM some minor contract and it just went on forever. I definitely think two LLMs talking to each other with two people copy pasting and not realizing it is worth like, a Rick and Morty episode or something.

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HarHarVeryFunny1y ago

Yeah, I've even seen people in top ML jobs glowingly describe the main value of CoPilot as (just) smart autocomplete, but copying/regurgitation of algorithms ought to be something that even today's LLMs should be capable of.

Of course there's always Google search too if you are just looking for an algorithm, but LLMs help in the discovery process since you can describe what you need without knowing the name of it.

Ekaros1y ago

Using LLMs to find reasonable subset of algorithms for a problem sounds like a valid use case. Could even get naive implementation and lead to comparing them to pick right one.

esafak1y ago

If they take the LLMs advice were they astute or just lucky? You'd have to ask the candidate to go into details to get any signal, and if the algorithm is hard enough for them to have to consult an LLM, they might not be able to do that.

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