Comment by squidbeak

13 hours ago

An experienced software engineer (read his profile) praises the value he's found in Deepseek, and gives some real data showing how affordable that value is.

Then you, dakolli - out of generosity and minute-to-minute devotion to enlightenment - sacrifice time from your busy day to sit down (though perhaps that's been painful lately?) or stand up with your phone - and offer a profound, deeply thought-out counterpoint in the following form (and I'll paraphrase):

"Nah mate, it's shit. All LLMs are shit."

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applicative  11 hours ago

How one is affected psychologically by LLMs 'hallucinating' presumably closely tracks how one is affected by pathological liars. Most of the things pathological liars say is true and if you can put up with it, one can work with them and learn from them. But some respond with extreme hatred and avoidance. This seems like one of the responses that is reasonable ... as is acceptance and instrumentalization of the individual.

dakolli  12 hours ago

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  • shock  11 hours ago

    > I really can't begin to describe how stupid I think you are for thinking that having that statement in your bio makes you a qualified engineer.

    Well, I guess having "Two PhDs, Three masters degrees. Expert in everything.." in your bio makes you very smart!

  • lionkor  11 hours ago

    I agree a bio is a bad proxy, and I'm not saying I'm amazing but I'm not THAT incompetent. Most of my GitHub is pre-LLM era; github.com/lionkor

    Edit: And like a lot of tools, HOW you use them is just about as important as the quality of the tool itself. Of course the tools can produce massive amounts of bad quality slop, they can also produce fast, focused edits that make sense.