Well, you could ask the AI your question, then check all the claims, respond with your findings, check the new claims, etc. until everything is OK.

But all that checking would be work. You can't be lazier, than without the AI.

Of course it helps, when you know the topic yourself. Then the checking-part is a lot easier.

But learning that would be work. You can't be lazier, than without the AI.

https://knowprose.com/2026/03/why-ai-writing-converges-the-adjacent-possible-of-language-models/

This makes LLMs very useful in software development. I have no one telling what to use or not use - yet I use them because doing so has measurably increased my productivity - especially in areas outside of my own core competence.

https://swecyb.com/@troed/116656901977924828

It may be correct to say that a ‘true’ output is more probable because it’s more common in the training data or has been reinforced by the training process, etc; but this is not the same as an LLM being able to distinguish between truth and falsehood (and anyway is not reliably correct). The likelihood of an output is independent of its truth-value and as such one is relying on the probability of it producing a true/useful output.

I'm not responsible for other statements made by other people.

And if that’s not what you want to discuss I don’t understand why you decided to start an argument about it.

(I didn't say anything about "don't make stuff up" - that's a strawman argument you successfully fought)

(I was wrong about LLMs for development, took the time to learn, and changed my mind)

(No, they're not simply correct "by chance")

/actual very very senior greybeard dev who challenged his own erroneous convictions regarding LLMs and now find them useful

#ai #aibubble #llm

It's just rolling linguistic dice, words bouncing around between probablistic paddles in a bigass pachinko matrix. It's not designed to vet facts. It's designed to regurgitate plausible spitwads that RESEMBLE facts. And the weights behind all those paddles and slots are tuned to whatever agenda the designers wish.

...And the designers serve planetwrecking technofascist war profiteers who party with people like Epstein.

Why would anyone ever trust it with so much as a goddamn casserole recipe??

Designed by wannabe supervillains, built with wartime-scale resources.

The hell do people expect??

I'm now trying to keep them accountable and biding my time before this blows up in their faces.

Thankfully the "accountability" story is working out fairly well so far, but it's fucking exhausting dealing with this bullshit.

I've tried to have conversations about 'how do we know whether this actually makes a difference' and so on, and I think it's probably better than it could be, but it's still very silly.

Ugh.