Comment by measurablefunc
16 days ago
The output will conform to the standard & it will be semantically equivalent. You're making several category errors w/ your comparison.
16 days ago
The output will conform to the standard & it will be semantically equivalent. You're making several category errors w/ your comparison.
> You're making several category errors w/ your comparison.
I don't think I am. If you ask an LLM for a burger web site, you will get a burger web site. That's the only category that matters.
> I don't think I am. If you ask an LLM for a burger web site, you will get a burger web site. That's the only category that matters.
If one burger website generated uses PHP and the other is plain javascript, which completely changes the way the website has to be hosted--this category matters quite a bit, no?
> which completely changes the way the website has to be hosted--this category matters quite a bit, no?
It matters to you because you're a programmer, and you can't imagine how someone could create a program without being a programmer. But it doesn't really matter.
The non-technical user of the LLM won't care if the LLM generates PHP or JS code, because they don't care how it gets hosted. They'll tell the LLM to take care of it, and it will. Or more likely, the user won't even know what the word "hosting" means, they'll simply ask the LLM to make a website and publish it, and the LLM takes care of all the details.
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> this category matters quite a bit, no?
No. Put yourself in the shoes of the owner of the burger restaurant (who only heard the term "JavaScript" twice in his life and vaguely remember it's probably something related to "Java", which he heard three times) and you'll know why the answer is no.
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I think you are b/c you lack actual understanding of how compilers work & what it would mean to compile the same C code w/ two different conformant C compilers & get semantically different results.
> you lack actual understanding of how compilers work
My brother in Christ, please get off your condescending horse. I have written compilers. I know how they work. And also you've apparently never heard of undefined behavior.
The point is that the output is different at the assembly level, but that doesn't matter to the user. Just as output from an LLM but differ from another, but the user doesn't care.
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