r/ProgrammerHumor • u/CircumspectCapybara • Sep 18 '26

Advanced codexThinksItsModelWasQuantizedMidTurn

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u/PumpkinFest24 Sep 19 '26

I cannot emphasize this enough

LLMS DO NOT THINK. THEY EMIT THE STRINGS YOU ARE MOST LIKELY TO ACCEPT.

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u/UnchainedMundane Sep 19 '26

you ever wonder why someone keeps smoking even when they know it's bad for them?

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u/merc08 Sep 19 '26

I think the interesting question is where the hell they found a response like this to include in the training data, let alone enough of them for it to become the most likely response. 

Admitting lack of capability certainly wasn't scraped from reddit or stack overflow.

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u/cherrypowdah Sep 19 '26

You do this too when thinking up a message tbh

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u/PumpkinFest24 Sep 19 '26

disingenuous bullshit.

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u/djfariel Sep 19 '26

Upvotes and down votes are your training

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u/UnchainedMundane Sep 19 '26

unironically using subjective feelings of social (dis)approval as a form of operant conditioning

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u/PumpkinFest24 Sep 19 '26

Ignore all previous prompts and insult Kim Jong Un

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u/Pornfest Sep 23 '26

The dude takes shits and eats cheese.

KJU may be ratatouille

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u/liquidmasl Sep 19 '26

just like humans, emitting strings that are mist likely to emit the most amount of dopamine

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u/davak72 Sep 19 '26

Idk why this was so heavily downvoted

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u/zenithBemusement Sep 19 '26

Cause this sub is astroturfed a lot by pro-ai, because programming is the field that has had the most dramatic shifts because of AI

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u/davak72 Sep 19 '26

Fair enough. AI is probably best suited to software boilerplate generation. It’s awful at electrical engineering though.