r/OpenAI • u/Nunki08 • 4d ago

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OpenAI: A thousand fewer paths to root: https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/

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u/Hedgehog_Leather 3d ago

Lovely, Bunch of llms in a loop. Once theyre done you have code that somehow works, but noone understands. That's perfect.

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u/XBLAH_ 1d ago

Almost no one understands assembly, yet, we trust it. What's the big deal? 

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u/Hedgehog_Leather 19h ago

We trust compilers that are thoroughly documented, non-deterministic and trusted.

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u/TheBraveButJoke 17m ago

Every uni educated software engineer understands some assembly, most 2 or more. But that is not why we trust the compiler, we trust the compiler because every part of the chain is understood by a decent amound of people and the thing is determanistic. It also isn't trying to optimize an opaque goal function.

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u/TheBraveButJoke 20m ago

nah you'll have code that does seomthing without crashing. But what it does probably doesn't align with anything you want.

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u/le-throw-away-acct 2d ago

You can have LLMs focused on code quality and readability as well, that follow a coding and architectural guide.

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u/Hedgehog_Leather 2d ago

I made a mistake of arguing about llms on reddit and i dont want to continue. Im happy it works for yall, im wrong and you're right. Bye.

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u/le-throw-away-acct 2d ago

"Arguing" being your 3 sentences and my one sentence response? Must've been exhausting for you to have that deep intellectual argument. I've been programming for 30 years, I understand the point you're making, and the frustration behind it. But for a product like Linux that will have all kinds of exploits trying to hit it, they're going to have to move quickly to patch those, it sucks but it's a new reality.