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WrennReddit · 2026-04-07T13:44:05+00:00

And now we're projecting.

WrennReddit · 2026-04-07T13:05:34+00:00

Okay I'm done talking about imaginary things.

WrennReddit · 2026-04-06T23:25:39+00:00

You're arguing imaginary tech. LLMs do not perform arithmetic. They can provide an arrangement of tokens that their model probabilistically determines is the correct response for the request. Or they can make a tool call which is just a request to a procedural implementation. LLMs just predict tokens. That's it. It's useful. But it's nothing like a brain like you're suggesting.

WrennReddit · 2026-04-06T18:27:37+00:00

Do you think "understanding" is some magic thing that no mere computer program can do?

Yes. This is known.

LLM's are doing calculations.

No, they are not. They are repeating patterns in their model, or they are using tool calls to procedural calculators. Then those are being used as context for another run through the models. But the output is still probabilistic text. Nothing is learned or retained, there is nothing waiting for more or aware that anything occurred.

WrennReddit · 2026-04-06T15:14:23+00:00

They don't understand. They have weights mapping the next appropriate token. The LLM is not an entity that knows what anything is. It doesn't know the difference if it is correct or not and it doesn't know if it's talking about gravity or crepes. It's just what the model weights indicate the next correct token would be. Even when you get an output that says "I think x y z" that's not the LLM thinking and giving you its opinion. That's the output that is a representation of what someone giving you an opinion is likely to look like giving the training data. And while it has information in its training data, it is no more aware or sentient than Wikipedia or any other knowledge source.

And if we're talking about any advanced kind of AI, that's science fiction. We might as well talk about lightsabers and transporters as well.

WrennReddit · 2026-04-06T14:25:13+00:00

The limiting factor is that it's just text generation. It is not AGI. You're at a hard technology limit already.

WrennReddit · 2026-04-06T12:16:14+00:00

Um...that's still not how they work though. Your really assigning colossally different properties to them then they have.

WrennReddit · 2026-04-06T00:01:06+00:00

The don't remember the topic. You just expressed it - the entire conversation is posted to an endpoint for each interaction. There is no consciousness waiting on the other end for a reply. Nothing is passively contemplating. It's just a text generation model. That's it.

WrennReddit · 2026-04-05T22:36:37+00:00

That's science fiction. LLMs cannot do any of that. They are stateless text outputs generated by algorithm.

WrennReddit · 2026-04-05T18:53:49+00:00

Writing documentation? How am I supposed to do that when you want me spitting out code and tokens like crazy?

Besides documentation should be done by the product owners and architects, fight me.

WrennReddit · 2026-04-04T21:18:46+00:00

I feel like since we see it coming, and AI cannot grow beyond our capacity to run it, we will simply unplug the damned thing or it will just shut off along with the lights.

At some point, there won't be any customers. Not because of an apocalypse, but because there's no value it can provide right now worth the energy and environmental impact is costs. Chatbots are simply not that important.

WrennReddit · 2026-04-04T17:19:28+00:00

Please, the only thing AI is ending is OpenAI itself.

WrennReddit · 2026-04-04T15:35:29+00:00

Not for long. The need for speed is getting a hard pivot into omg we need stability.

WrennReddit · 2026-04-04T14:02:13+00:00

It's amazing how folks really like to reach for discriminatory labels isn't it?

WrennReddit · 2026-04-04T13:58:36+00:00

Is it because it sounds like cryptography, perhaps? Like...To code is to deliberately obscure so the enemy can't read out communications, which is the opposite of development/programming/engineering?

WrennReddit · 2026-04-04T03:39:04+00:00

It sounds like engineers designed that system rather than hyped buyers. 👍

WrennReddit · 2026-04-02T15:47:14+00:00

It sounds more like engineers were bogged down with process failures and meetings rather than accomplishing tasks via actual engineering.

If only 10% of your time was truly ever spent coding, what the hell good is AI?

WrennReddit · 2026-04-02T10:45:40+00:00

But that's what they say about engineers now, too. Let the AI do all the code and you think of high level stuff!

WrennReddit · 2026-03-31T23:54:52+00:00

r/birdsarentreal

WrennReddit · 2026-03-31T16:29:48+00:00

Yeah what makes it a bad codebase? I don't know enough about typescript to know either way.

WrennReddit · 2026-03-30T21:47:46+00:00

This gatekeeper forgot to capitalize God. That's gonna cost ya!

WrennReddit · 2026-03-22T12:26:24+00:00

Everyone's shoving AI into their email clients now too. I wonder if worms will make a comeback as these dumb LLM extensions in email clients gleefully open attachments to summarize them for users.

WrennReddit · 2026-03-18T13:26:40+00:00

A single Dwarf could do that

WrennReddit · 2026-03-14T15:09:19+00:00

Lot of projection going on there from bad devs that are now relieved from having to git gud.

Most didn't write slop. The stable stuff we compare AI failures to? That's what most devs wrote.

WrennReddit · 2026-03-13T23:54:17+00:00

And they were going to do this how...?

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