Comment by resonious
3 days ago
Except the tokens you insert have meaning, and some yield better results than others. Not like a slot machine at all, really. Last I checked, those only have 1 possible input, no way to improve your odds.
3 days ago
Except the tokens you insert have meaning, and some yield better results than others. Not like a slot machine at all, really. Last I checked, those only have 1 possible input, no way to improve your odds.
Ok so it's poker rather than a slot machine
Not really, it's not a zero-sum game. You're not competing against anything, you're working with something. It's just a tool that takes practice, has some variability and isn't free. Like most things in life. More like buying corn or having friends.
Poker takes practice, has variability and isn't free. In fact it's the only game I know of that's pointlessly boring without money on the table.
LLM workflow is competing with other ways of writing code. DIY, stack overflow, paired, offshored...
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Yes I accept this analogy!