Comment by inigyou
4 days ago
If a carpenter uses a table saw, is he still a carpenter?
What if he just throws wood randomly at the table saw and tries to sell whatever pieces come out?
(Never do this with a table saw, btw. They can, and will if you don't use proper procedures, throw wood sideways at speeds that can punch through walls and impale people)
This analogy doesn't make much sense to me. Is the table saw analogous to LLMs because they both work with the appropriate substrate (wood/text)? I don't see how an LLM is like a table saw at all.
Is a musician less of a musician if they use a pre-recorded back-beat and sing on top? Are you not a musician if you use the chord mode on a keyboard?
Is code not hand-written if my editor automatically closes all of my html? What if my editor flags all of the errors and I manually correct them? And what if it auto-corrects at the press of a button?
There is a line and I'm asking about it earnestly, but the table saw analogy doesn't reach it IMO.
What if I barely know the rules of chess and I use a chess computer to play all my games for me; I win the world title this way. Am I a chess Grant Master?
I think you already know the answers to all of these questions.
This is an excellent analogy that shows how LLMs are fundamentally different than linters, auto-complete, or transpilers.