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I recently just referenced the selective applicative functors paper and let it write me an implementation in scala. There is one already available in github, so I can't judge if it really just read the paper and implemented it, but the result was so minimal quick and amazing.

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Well if you can't judge, doesn't it make your comment completely useless?

No, I don't think OP's comment is useless. It's not just a blanket statement, "Wow, LLM's quick", but also critically reflective, like a brief limitations section. This opens the discussion, by indirectly posing questions like, "Is it really this fast or "cheating"? How could we measure this experimentally? Etc.

It's useless because this is not novel at this point, its literally everyone posting on HN - I did a thing with an LLM but idk if its good! That doesn't open up the discussion, it retreads the exact same discussion that both sides are not listening to each other on.

LLMs are black boxy, its not like I can inspect the used weights of a prompt and judge the source of those weights.

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