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0 pointsjollyllama5mo ago0 comments

> You’re just not using LLMs enough.

> You can never trust the LLM to generate a url

This is very poorly worded. Using LLMs more wouldn't solve the problem. What you're really saying is that the GP is uninformed about LLMs.

This may seem like pedantry on my part but I'm sick of hearing "you're doing it wrong" when the real answer is "this tool can't do that." The former is categorically different than the latter.

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IanCal5mo ago

It's pretty clearly worded to me, they don't use LLMs enough to know how to use them successfully. If you use them regularly you wouldn't see a set of urls without thinking "Unless these are extremely obvious links to major sites, I will assume each is definitely wrong".

> I'm sick of hearing "you're doing it wrong"

That's not what they said. They didn't say to use LLMs more for this problem. The only people that should take the wrong meaning from this are ones who didn't read past the first sentence.

> when the real answer is "this tool can't do that."

That is what they said.

jollyllamaOP5mo ago

> If you use them regularly you wouldn't see a set of urls without thinking...

Sure, but conceivably, you could also be informed of this second hand, through any publication about LLMs, so it is very odd to say "you don't use them enough" rather than "you're ignorant" or "you're uninformed". It is very similar to these very bizarre AI-maximalist positions that so many of us are tired of seeing.

IanCal5mo ago

This isn't ai maximalist though, it's explicitly pointing out something that regularly does not work!

> Sure, but conceivably, you could also be informed of this second hand, through any publication about LLMs, so it is very odd to say "you don't use them enough" rather than "you're ignorant" or "you're uninformed".

But this is to someone who is actively using them, and the suggestion of "if you were using them more actively you'd know this, this is a very common issue" is not at all weird. There are other ways they could have known this, but they didn't.

"You haven't got the experience yet" is a much milder way of saying someone doesn't know how to use a tool properly than "you're ignorant".

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0 pointsjollyllama5mo ago0 comments

> You’re just not using LLMs enough.

> You can never trust the LLM to generate a url

This is very poorly worded. Using LLMs more wouldn't solve the problem. What you're really saying is that the GP is uninformed about LLMs.

This may seem like pedantry on my part but I'm sick of hearing "you're doing it wrong" when the real answer is "this tool can't do that." The former is categorically different than the latter.

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IanCal5mo ago

> I'm sick of hearing "you're doing it wrong"

That's not what they said. They didn't say to use LLMs more for this problem. The only people that should take the wrong meaning from this are ones who didn't read past the first sentence.

> when the real answer is "this tool can't do that."

That is what they said.

jollyllamaOP5mo ago

> If you use them regularly you wouldn't see a set of urls without thinking...

IanCal5mo ago

This isn't ai maximalist though, it's explicitly pointing out something that regularly does not work!

"You haven't got the experience yet" is a much milder way of saying someone doesn't know how to use a tool properly than "you're ignorant".

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