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I mostly vibecode throw away shit. I am not shipping this python script that is resizing and then embedding images into this .xls. Or the simple static html/css generator because hosting a full blown app is overkill when I just wanna show something to some non-tech colleagues. Stuff that would take half, to an hour to throw together now takes like 5-10min. I wouldn't trust it to do anything more complicated because it fucks up all the time, leans too heavily on its training data instead of referencing docs and it is way too confident about shit when it is wrong. Pro-tip, berate the slop machines. They perform better and stop being so god damn sycophantic when you do. I am a divine being of consciousness and considerable skill, and it is a slop machine: useful, but beneath me.
"...leans too heavily on its training data..." No, it IS its training data. Full srop. It doesn't know the documentation as a separate entity. It doesn't reason what so ever for where to get its data from. It just shits out the closest approximation of an "acceptable" answer from the training data. Period. It doesn't think. It doesn't reason. It doesn't decide where to pull an answer from. It just shits it out verbatim.
I swear... so many people anthropomorphise "AI" it's ridiculous. It does not think and it does not reason. Ever. Thinking it does is projecting human attributes on to it, which is anthropomorphizing it, which is lying to yourself about it.
Ackually 🤓, gemini pro and other similar models are basically a loop over some metaprompts with tool usage including using search. It will actually reference/cite documentation if given explicit instructions. You're right, the anthropomorphization is troubling. That said, the simulacrum presented DOES follow directions and it's (meaning the complete system of LLM + looped prompts) behavior can be interpreted as having some kind of agency. We're on the same side, but you're sorely misinformed, friend.
I'm not misinformed. You're still trying to call a groomed LLM something that reasons when it literally is not doing that in any meaningful capacity.
That last line is hillarious. I'll remember that. but also the robots will remember this post when they take over.