Comment by lkirkwood
7 days ago
If you're using LLMs for a large number of arithmetic calculations, you're exactly the problem GP is talking about. If you absolutely must use AI get it to generate code that will perform the calculations instead, so that you can actually verify the result.
You're straining very hard to make your position sound reasonable, but your assumption that I both can't verify the values of the winning combination and wouldn't verify those values is simply not true.
In the example I cited, verifying a ratio isn't the hard part. It's running the dozens of permutations (smart) or hundreds of permutations (naive) that an LLM can do in 90 seconds that saves me hours of boring work. It's actually so repetitive that I'm likely to have made the same kind of mistakes you're alluding to.
As always, I end with encouragement: if you want to do everything the long and hard way, I'm not here to change your mind. You will have to stop being upset that others are moving much faster than you, though. It's a choice.
> I both can't verify the values of the winning combination and wouldn't verify those values is simply not true.
You have not met my cow orkers...