Peter H. Fröhlich

You're begging some "random text extrusion god" you think you believe in to please PLEASE do what you want it to do? You're begging it REPEATEDLY so MAYBE it will have mercy and actually follow your instructions? Are you really THAT stupid? So 10 prayers are not enough but 144 might be and in any case the more prayers the better? Because WHO KNOWS what "god" REALLY wants before fulfilling your wishes?

Scientists and engineers had left all that stupidity behind and now you're bringing it back and you're calling it progress. IF YOU WERE WRITING THE CODE YOURSELF YOU COULD JUST WRITE IT THIS WAY OR THAT AND BE SURE! This is progress in the same way that US politics rushing back into the dark ages is. What's worse? An idiot prompt fondler or a right-wing nutbag politician? At least the politician is only TELLING OTHERS to pray, knowing full-well that it's useless. But you actually pray. To a slot machine.

Amen.

Apr 1 at 9:44pmWeb
Show threadLucas6d ago
@phf Yeah, it seems that there's quite a lot of unfounded trust involved in LLM users. I wonder how much of that can be attributed to a lack of education, and how much is self-deception of people who know deep inside that what they're doing is actually wrong. I'd like to put software developers in the latter category, but (at least) two decades of deskilling tell a different story.