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brookstyesterday at 12:22 AM1 replyview on HN

That would be true of non-iterative models that just emit an output from beginning to end.

No reasonable model has worked that way for years.


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sebastiennightyesterday at 8:52 AM

I would be very interested in hearing about those "iterative models" you seem so convinced have existed "for years" (so, at least since 2024 / GPT-4o). Do you have any sources?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. So far the only other people I've seen teach this prompting style or talk about models "correcting their own output" were getting their information from AI-generated, hallucinated LinkedIn and TikTok posts.

If this thing exists - which is not just a LLM outputting content serially, placed inside a harness where itself (or another llm) is prompted to review and also output revisions serially - and if a single model can be prompted to output content and "iterate" or rewind it, and it's been widespread amongst "all reasonable models", surely there will be a flurry of sources you can point me to so I can learn.

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