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Comment by d_silin

In aviation safety, there is a concept of "Swiss cheese" model, where each successful layer of safety may not be 100% perfect, but has a different set of holes, so overlapping layers create a net gain in safety metrics.

One can treat current LLMs as a layer of "cheese" for any software development or deployment pipeline, so the goal of adding them should be an improvement for a measurable metric (code quality, uptime, development cost, successful transactions, etc).

Of course, one has to understand the chosen LLM behaviour for each specific scenario - are they like Swiss cheese (small numbers of large holes) or more like Havarti cheese (large number of small holes), and treat them accordingly.

parent d_silin 10 months ago

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