The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying • Hacker News Board

Re: The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

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Post by theshrike79 » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 7:28 AM UTC

> This sort of protectionism is also seen in e.g. controlled-appelation foods like artisanal cheese or cured ham. These require not just traditional manufacturing methods and high-quality ingredients from farm to table, but also a specific geographic origin.

Maybe "Artisanal Coding" will be a thing in the future?

Re: The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

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Post by hsbauauvhabzb » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 7:29 AM UTC

baq wrote: post #9

Lying implies knowing what’s true

Oh sorry my mistake! you’re right I don’t know what’s true.

Re: The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

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Post by wilg » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 7:43 AM UTC

LLMs are pretty cool technology and are useful for programming.

Re: The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

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Post by Meneth » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 7:48 AM UTC

That's a lie.

Re: The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

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Post by 5o1ecist » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 7:52 AM UTC

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Re: The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

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Post by Copenjin » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 7:59 AM UTC

I instantly remembered the page header, I probably visited this site last time 10 years ago or something.

Re: The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

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Post by emsign » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 8:02 AM UTC

GuestFAUniverse wrote: post #10

And "lazy". Claude makes me mad: even when I ask for small code snippets to be improved, it increasingly starts to comment "what I could improve" in the code I stead of generating the embarrassingly easy code with the improvement itself. If I point it to that by something like "include that yourself", it does a decent job. That's so _L_azy.

LLMs are cheaters because their goal isn't to produce good code but to please the human.

Re: The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

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Post by emsign » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 8:04 AM UTC

wilg wrote: post #13

LLMs are pretty cool technology and are useful for programming.

If you check the code afterwards. You do check the code yourself, don't you?

Re: The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

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Post by emsign » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 8:09 AM UTC

> It's not a co-pilot, it's just on auto-pilot.

Love it. Calling it "Copilot" in itself is a lie. Marketing speak to sell you an idea that doesn't exist. The idea is that you are still in control.

Re: The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

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Post by _flux » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 8:11 AM UTC

emsign wrote: post #19

> It's not a co-pilot, it's just on auto-pilot. Love it. Calling it "Copilot" in itself is a lie. Marketing speak to sell you an idea that doesn't exist. The idea is that you are still in control.

Well initially it was a lot less capable. Someone might describe it auto-complete on steroids.

Someone might call LLMs that today, except they've stepped a bit up from steroids.