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LLMs reward expertise
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#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if the code sucks, because it was vibe coded by an LLM over a dozen disparate sessions?
If it performs the overall function but the code is a mess, then you can ask the model to describe parts of it, the structures and what the structures are for. When it shows you something that is messed up, suggest a better framing for the same thing and ask the model to implement the better framing without regressing on already passing tests. I'm going through this right now on a very difficult to implement task, th…
This sounds like coding manually would take less time.
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#263The interesting thing is, most messages were ending with just one question of his. Examples:
- ..Does this polynomial map have any symmetry or other structure that makes this cancelation less miraculous?
- Given this structure can you see the non injectivity in a transparent way?
- ..But why is the jacobian from x u r to P Q R just a monomial?
- ..Is there a general theory of such twisted jacobians and do you have any sense why those particular dilation weights were used?
- Given this weight structure, why exactly is x given by a cubic equation from P,Q,R?
Also, looks like Terence Tao was doing lot of work and asking LLM to verify. This is inverse of the LLM trend, where LLM does the work and humans verify.
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#264At work we call this implicit steering. To use webdev metaphor, if a non-technical person describes making a web page with a big block at the top and some things to click on and then my pictures below that, that will eventually get somewhere. Meanwhile, if you know industry jargon, you might describe a hero, with call to action buttons, and then below a 3x3 grid of images of my portfolio photos—that's likely going to…
Opus, assume i know nothing about web development. if i wanted to design a new webpage, with a good design, what are some of the terms of art, some best practices? Like if i wanted a big block at the top, some things to click on and some pictures below that, is there terminology for that? >Yes. Nearly everything you described has a standard name. Here is the vocabulary, organized by what part of the page it describes…
That first sentence already uses a ton of jargon that non-developers don't use, "web development", "new webpage", "good design", "best practices", "big block",
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#265The problem is LLMs reward no expertise and stupidity also.
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not the OP but you can whack this into your prompt and get most of the way there: "no jargon goes unearned, nothing gets dumbed down, every abstraction touches ground"
A punchy tricolon containing 2 analogies that don’t quite make sense. That’s some S-tier AI-mimicking. Nice!
One I got "That settles it, and it flips the picture"
well not very settled then is it
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the terminal is a scary place Isn't the the powerful, unlimited, unopinionated blank LLM text input waiting for your instructions eerily similar to a scary terminal? WIMP and GUI paradigms are the exact the opposite: intentional dis-empowering, by design restrictions, enumeration of your few possible options. Those feel more constrained therefore safer.
> WIMP and GUI paradigms are the exact the opposite: intentional dis-empowering Are you kidding? WIMP and GUI democratized computing!
What "democratized computing" was cheaper computing and VisiCalc, not WIMP and GUI?
But again, VisiCalc is intentionally limited, it's not a all-powerful environment, on purpose. It's all about intentional limitations, making computation easier to reason about.
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#268I did a test a few months ago. A friend of mine wanted to develop what i understood to be a simple single page web app. But since she didn’t have any software engineering experience she asked me to help. Around that time everyone was talking about how literally anyone can develop software with LLMs i asked her if she could give it a try first, and if I could watch the attempt. I was fully expecting that writing the c…
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#269Re: LLMs reward expertise
#270Not sure I agree with this. The math guy at anthropic's prompts are essentially: "suppose you’ve gotta resolve the $CONJECTURE, like absolutely have to, everything depends on it. think really hard, and try to come up with a bunch of ideas to try. but remember to trust yourself and not necessarily in conventional wisdom!!" https://claude.ai/share/25740bd5-aa97-4bd7-bf58-c4df3793fda7 https://xcancel.com/__alpoge__/stat…
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