Comment by setr
3 days ago
the problem with false positives is that a single instance means you have to review every record meticulously, because you have no idea where the system has lied to you, or how many times (because the system itself doesn't). If you're going to review everything anyways, it's often better to simply be slow and correct to begin with rather than diff and correct every item.
this is why it's usually better to be overaggressive with saying "I don't know" rather than crossing your fingers and shitting out an answer and hoping you get away with it.
When did we switch the conversation to LLM issues? =)
One of the devs for a company I used to work shocked me when he said "bad data is better than no data" when inquiring about why the input field was limited to a drop down of pre-filled values that were irrelevant with no way of filling in correct data. At that point, I just felt the entire database was suspect