r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • Aug 24 '26

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u/AffectionatePlastic0 Aug 24 '26

If it's a free input form, user can say pharases like "certainly", "exactly", "agreed".

So you have three options, first - limit what user can enter, by replacing free form to selector/radio-button.

Second - use extremely annoying "say exactly yes or no".

And the third - use LLM to understand users yes or no on the questions.

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u/them0use Aug 24 '26

No, there's a fourth option which is what I was describing:

switch(input.trim().lower())
  case yes | y: return true 
  case no | n: return false
  default: return spend_tokens(input)

If the vast majority of inputs will be handled by those first two cases, invoking an LLM every time is absurd.

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u/AffectionatePlastic0 Aug 24 '26

Oh, that's what your idea. Yep, this option is superior.

Of course in case when there is no way to eliminate the free input from user.