Comment by gopalv
3 days ago
Dealing with a "more magic switch" this week with Claude.
The AI prompting business feels a lot more like the analog circuit where something being "near" something else causes capacitance or inductance without actually being connected.
What is old is again new!
Yeah there's going to be AI version of row hammer attacks where you pollute the training data to get a favourable bias somehow.
We should have skipped this phase of AI development and just created terminators.
I'm playing a lot with AI but...
To me these tools are pointless unless they're 100% reproducible. If they're not reproducible, they create more problems than they solve.
Thankfully local models are a thing and the proper ones already have a "random" seed and given the same seed an the same prompt shall always give the same picture / answer / etc.
If they can't do that, they're the road to impossible to fix bugs, impossible to diagnose products defects.
Many who rely on non-deterministic models are in for a world of hurt that's going to make these post-modern of insane bugs look like cheap stakes.