alt Hacker NewsI'm at a loss why you would put a random number generator in front of such a sensitive operation. It's literally a matter of time before the output sampler chooses a somewhat-less-probable string like the one xatt posted. Or just deletes your stuff.
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If I had a pseudo random number generator that somehow kept outputting winning lottery numbers a reasonable percentage of the time, I would use it to enter the lottery. Even if it seemed completely impossible and despite studying the algorithm, I did not understand how it worked—I would still use it.
That's basically how I feel about LLMs right now. I have no idea how any of this is possible but somehow it seems to be working.
Didn't xatt prove you shouldn't leave this to human? I'd trust a frontier model more than a human to do it.
It works, bud. It is getting to the point where I am learning new things when using my LLM to modify my home network and devices.
Because I've done it a million times and wanted to see what the "random number generator" is capable of? Because I have config backups/know how to unbrick?
You should try it, you might be surprised how thorough it is. It certainly checked more things pre/during/post-upgrade than I did to make sure everything goes smoothly. And definitely more than xattt, apparently ;)