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  • Ok it occurs to me that people use this like they use a spellinng/grammar checker in a word processor.

    Spellcheck:

    • They have an idea.
    • They type up the idea.
    • They run spellcheck and it churns through their document and it fixes mistakes that it can see.
    • They send it to someone for review.

    LLM coding:

    • They have an idea.
    • They type up the idea.
    • LLM churns on the idea and spits out a solution-of-sorts.
    • They send it to someone for review.

    Regardless of other opinions of it, they see it as a tool that helps take the effort out of getting ideas into reality.

    Edit: Oh wait, this is c/programming. Fuck. Ok, give me 5 minutes for me to sharpen my pitchfork and come up with something that matches the groupthink, I’ll be right back.






  • CXMT will sell the chips to memory manufacturers in China for “domestic use only” at near cost price as directed by the CCP.

    Those manufacturers will construct consumer ram modules and sell them locally, and there will be grey market exports to other countries for ridiculously low prices compared to everyone else.

    This way the CCP props up domestic supply, and chips away at foreign manufacturer market share by turning a blind eye to the massive grey market export of RAM.











  • If it were a human doing it.

    LLMs didn’t spring forth fully-formed out of the void, there are actual companies and actual people responsible for their construction, and thus, responsible for their output.

    Just because current norms seem to handwave that responsibility away doesn’t mean that they are not responsible.

    We all laugh about LLMs recommending a cup of glue being added to your pizza toppings. But there are increasing cases of considerable harm occuring from LLM “advice”, and no amount of “LLMs might give inaccurate answers” fine print attached to results is going to save big corps if something sizeable happens and multiple deaths occur.