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CodeWriter23 • yesterday at 12:38 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

My high school computer instructor told me:

"It's doing exactly what you told it to do".

Still applies in the Age of the LLM


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hbn • yesterday at 4:21 PM

Doesn't that only apply here if you wrote the harness?

Most people are just using a product and shouldn't be expected to know the implementation details.

iperov • yesterday at 1:48 AM

For LLMs, also a continuation:

"and whatever you didn't tell it to do will happen with equal probability"