@cwebber in the context of rewriting code, though, I think they should be treated like a "translation" tool (like compilers and linkers) and should not be able to change the copyright of the original (other than adding more ambiguity, I suppose).
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I keep seeing lots of people saying "LLMs are like compilers/assemblers for prompts" -
when do you usually use the man page for a complex command line tool to answer a question you have?@b0rk I got spoilt by the amazing quality and consistency of OpenBSD's man pages. Even when searching the web, I do 'man <command>' first.
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Because not using AI tools for what they excel at will produce less secure code.@filippo the "reasoning" is a series of RAG queries, which in turn are web searches or agent outputs that then get added to the context, with no additional component of "understanding" or "knowing" or "reasoning". Just text generation with more context which may or may not be correct. Yes, they are helpful if you can verify the output and they speed things up if you can easily identify and discard incorrect outputs
I am not a developer. I am on the other side, dealing with summaries devoid of content or originality and and increased workload because people think that these things are like a fellow developer that "knows" or "learned" something just because they did it correctly once.
In that, I support your effort pointing these tools to better patterns, but refuse to anthromorphize it.
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Because not using AI tools for what they excel at will produce less secure code.@filippo I am sorry, but a cryptographer saying something like "they know more math than me" only tells me that the cryptographer in question does not know how those things work. Please do not underestimate yourself or overestimate the capabilities of a text generator that happens to be have ingested tons of stolen human generated mathematical text that it stitches together (or quotes verbatim without attribution) to look like an answer.
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i'm going to write a software rendered occlusion culling mechanism for block game đ¤@eniko bounding spheres?