Comment by YeGoblynQueenne

In my experience there's no longer any good reason to post research papers investigating limitations of LLMs on HN any more because they are always met with one, or all, of the following arguments that have now taken the status of thought-terminating clichés:

1. It's an older model.

2. You're prompting it wrong.

3. That's not what LLMs are for.

4. We knew that already.

It's as if there LLMs have no limitations, which of course goes completely against number 1 in the list above, because if LLMs have no limitations then how are newer models better and why are AI companies constantly releasing new versions?

But the debate has taken on an insidious identitarian character: it's no longer about understanding a technology, its strengths, its limitations, what makes it tick. It's a fractious internet fight between crowds of users who have attached this or that opinion to their very internet persona and will not budge from their entrenched positions.

That is basically the death of curious debate. Obviously there's no point in discussing any research under those conditions: good or bad, flawed or not, we're just not going to get any signal out of the noise on HN anymore.