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Also, LLMs never *write* code snippets, they just pirate them from somewhere else.

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So, like humans? Code didn't just appear in my brain, I learnt it from reading it everywhere else.

You still wrote it, processed it in your brain, and reasoned about it.

With an LLM you do zero of those things. I don't understand how you don't get that.

Yes, but if you were being accurate you wouldn't say "AI wrote this code for me", you'd say "I used an Eliza bot to automate copying and pasting from someone else's github repo".

nice answer. LLMs do reflect whatever humankind has produced. In good and in bad. But it is hardly pirating. It can also do what humankind has never failed to do, for example:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02822-9

Can you show me an example of a time that you prompted an LLM to provide some code, it did so, and then you were able to track down an original source for the output?

Every time I've asked an LLM to provide some code, it's given me an example from my own github repos.

Granted, I've only asked it about some of the weirdly specific technological niche that my code inhabits.

Well that's funny, because you were making some pretty blanket statements upstream about how they "never" do this and "always" do that. And yet your experience seems extremely limited and niche, by your own admission.

Maybe you should experiment a little more. I think you will quickly learn that your previous impression is wrong. The days of them being merely some sort of jumped up autocomplete are years gone.

Look, I know you believe in the Mystical GPU Sky Fairy, but AI is not in any sense "intelligent". It doesn't think. It's a pattern-matching system like an Eliza bot with a huge corpus to draw from.

It is not thinking. It cannot think. It cannot create.

None of that has anything to do with anything either of us said to you, and is also well outside of how people are expected to converse here.

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