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I am baffled that, in the year 2026, I am telling technically competent engineers to not solicit nor take legal advice from a random word generator
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degenerating degenerate

Have you actually tried the current Coding assist AIs?

Because if you had, you would be surprised they are not "random word generators" but actually very useful.

You can try antigravity.google for free on your own code on your own machine (Linux is fine) and ask it to do your own choice of tasks.

If you want to come back and tell me you found rand() in an overcoat, well, OK. But I think you will be very surprised.

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in reply to Hastar i motvind 🇸🇪

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degenerating degenerate

@hastar
The LLMs are actually deterministic themselves; you can give them the same PRNG seed and get the same result.

It's wrong to say that they are "random word generators" like there is a dictionary and a random index into the dictionary is chosen... they are choosing what they want to talk about based on the weights they arrived at.

You too will not recite what you want to say verbatim each time, but through your internal state decide how to express yourself.

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Ariaflame

@hopeless @hastar They aren't sentient, they are not 'choosing' anything. They're just picking at random from weighted options. They don't know anything. If the training set was good for what specifically you wanted to do you might be lucky. Otherwise you could be totally fucked and not know it until a lot later when something breaks/lets someone into your system.
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