Flutterby™! : LLM boosterism

LLM boosterism

2025-06-03 17:18:44.674949+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Counter to my cynicism: Thomas Ptacek: My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts. I remain skeptical, but a few things resonated, like:

If hallucination matters to you, your programming language has let you down.

Agents lint. They compile and run tests. If their LLM invents a new function signature, the agent sees the error. They feed it back to the LLM, which says “oh, right, I totally made that up” and then tries again.

This is one of the reasons I get frustrated with Python. On the other hand I've seen enough subtlety in C and C++ that I'm also not convinced there, and have my own complaints about Rust, but... good languages type. Hard.

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