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> I’m shocked how many otherwise well-informed people don’t understand or agree with this very fundamental fact of just how little we actually understand about why LLMs work as well as they do.

Well-informed people understand that LLMs work as well as they do for the same reasons as horoscopes, fortune-telling and homeopathy.

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They work great for banging out POC apps or writing boilerplate code. This is a real use.

Homeopathy triggers the placebo effect. That is a real use.

If horoscopes and homeopathy can generate tests, then call me a Pisces and pass me the singular molecule of deadly nightshade toxin.

Be careful what you wish for. This weekend in tearing out hundreds of crappy tests that got vibed into a codebase.

...well, you could train an LLM on whatever horoscopes and then ask it :-?

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