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Here's an odd example of testing, but I design very complex board and card games, and LLMs are terrible at figuring out whether they make sense or really even restating the rules in a different wording.

I thought they would be ideal for the job, until I realized that it would just pretend that the rules worked because they looked like board game rules. The more you ask it to restate, manipulate or simulate the rules, the more you can tell that it's bluffing. It literally thinks every complicated set of rules works perfectly.

> it found vulnerabilities in 25 year old BSD code that was unspotted by humans.

I don't think the age of the code makes the problem more complex. Finding buffers that are too small is not rocket science, bothering to look at some corner of some codebase that you've never paid attention to or seen a problem with is. AI being infinitely useful (cheap) to sic on pieces of codebase nobody ever carefully looks at is a great thing. It's not genius on the part of the AI.

parent pessimizer 6 months ago

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