> This, to me, is the critical and fatal flaw that prevents me from using or even being excited about LLMs: That they can be randomly, nondeterministically and confidently wrong, and there is no way to know without manually reviewing every output.
Sounds a lot like most engineers I’ve ever worked with.
There are a lot of people utilizing LLMs wisely because they know and embrace this. Reviewing and understanding their output has always been the game. The whole “vibe coding” trend where you send the LLM off to do something and hope for the best will teach anyone this lesson very quickly if they try it.
Sounds a lot like most engineers I’ve ever worked with.
There are a lot of people utilizing LLMs wisely because they know and embrace this. Reviewing and understanding their output has always been the game. The whole “vibe coding” trend where you send the LLM off to do something and hope for the best will teach anyone this lesson very quickly if they try it.