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Comment by OJFord

4 months ago

LLMs are to software engineering as 3D printers are to mechanical engineering.

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echelon  4 months ago

Great analogy! I'm stealing this.

alganet  4 months ago

Why are they being sold as DROs then?

  • dymk  4 months ago

    Do you mean VMCs or something?

    • alganet  4 months ago

      I meant a Digital Readout, a DRO. A digital nechanism that provides metrology assistance to machining operations.

      LLMs for code are currently sold as sort of that.

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