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stevenhuangyesterday at 9:08 PM1 replyview on HN

I don't even try anymore. The people who still parrot the stochastic parrot bit this late in the game will simply never understand it.


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otabdeveloper4yesterday at 9:11 PM

LLMs predict next token one at a time. (Stochastically.) Literally. It's what they do. That's how they literally work.

If you don't believe me, download llama.cpp and see for yourself.

P.S. I write inference backends in C++ every day. The gall of people like you who figured out how to prompt Claude and think they're hot shit now is simply unbelievable.

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