Comment by t55
3 days ago
I think that for at least for us dumb humans with limited memory, having good abstractions makes things much easier to understand
3 days ago
I think that for at least for us dumb humans with limited memory, having good abstractions makes things much easier to understand
Yes, but I wonder how much of this trait is carried over to the LLMs from us.
what do you mean, the LLM abstracting things for us while we speak to it?
No I meant something else. As you said: us humans love clean abstractions. We love building on top of them. Now LLMs are trained on data produced by us. So I wonder if they would also inherit this trait from us and end up loving good abstractions, and would find it easier to build on top of them. Other possibility is that they end up move-37ing the whole abstraction shebang. And find that always building something up bespoke, from low-level is better than constraining oneself to some general purpose abstraction.
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