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throwuxiytayq • today at 8:32 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Are you under the impression that LLMs take source from the internet and put it on your hard drive? That’s your good faith interpretation of what’s going on?


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byko3y • today at 11:07 AM

It does exactly what you say: takes source code from the internet and put it onto your hard drive, but in a very indirect way, occasionally verbatim, in other cases it renames identifiers and does a bit of composition.

I actually reported one such case: https://github.com/cesanta/elk/issues/75

The kid had no clue LLM just copied implementation from other similar project.