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  3. Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful.

Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful.

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  • jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.ioJ This user is from outside of this forum
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    Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful. It's just fucking magic incantations

    Did you use this specific super power?
    Did you ask it to explain itself?
    Did you read it's thought process to see where it's getting overwhelmed?

    No because none of that is real. It does not do any of those things. It confabulates statistically probable text, and it does that over and over until a control loop stops asking for more. That is the whole entire thing.

    oli@olifant.socialO drangnon@hachyderm.ioD eniko@mastodon.gamedev.placeE pikesley@mastodon.me.ukP properlypurple@tech.lgbtP 5 Replies Last reply
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    • jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.ioJ jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io

      Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful. It's just fucking magic incantations

      Did you use this specific super power?
      Did you ask it to explain itself?
      Did you read it's thought process to see where it's getting overwhelmed?

      No because none of that is real. It does not do any of those things. It confabulates statistically probable text, and it does that over and over until a control loop stops asking for more. That is the whole entire thing.

      oli@olifant.socialO This user is from outside of this forum
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      @jenniferplusplus As I'm fond of saying, you did not 'wear down' the AI until it gave you the right answer. It wore you down, because it's inexhaustible, until you were finally willing to accept its answer.

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        @jenniferplusplus As I'm fond of saying, you did not 'wear down' the AI until it gave you the right answer. It wore you down, because it's inexhaustible, until you were finally willing to accept its answer.

        oli@olifant.socialO This user is from outside of this forum
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        @jenniferplusplus "I guess this art looks kinda like what I asked for. Close enough, anyway."

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          @abstractcode what about the AI's ineffable, immortal soul dot emdee?

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          • jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.ioJ jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io

            Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful. It's just fucking magic incantations

            Did you use this specific super power?
            Did you ask it to explain itself?
            Did you read it's thought process to see where it's getting overwhelmed?

            No because none of that is real. It does not do any of those things. It confabulates statistically probable text, and it does that over and over until a control loop stops asking for more. That is the whole entire thing.

            drangnon@hachyderm.ioD This user is from outside of this forum
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            @jenniferplusplus yes, exactly this, and exactly why it's burning down the forests. just ... a supercharged Monte Carlo routine

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            • jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.ioJ jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io

              Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful. It's just fucking magic incantations

              Did you use this specific super power?
              Did you ask it to explain itself?
              Did you read it's thought process to see where it's getting overwhelmed?

              No because none of that is real. It does not do any of those things. It confabulates statistically probable text, and it does that over and over until a control loop stops asking for more. That is the whole entire thing.

              eniko@mastodon.gamedev.placeE This user is from outside of this forum
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              @jenniferplusplus you cannot control the stochastic parrot's random number generator

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              • jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.ioJ jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io

                Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful. It's just fucking magic incantations

                Did you use this specific super power?
                Did you ask it to explain itself?
                Did you read it's thought process to see where it's getting overwhelmed?

                No because none of that is real. It does not do any of those things. It confabulates statistically probable text, and it does that over and over until a control loop stops asking for more. That is the whole entire thing.

                pikesley@mastodon.me.ukP This user is from outside of this forum
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                @jenniferplusplus

                But I wrote "DO NOT HALLUCINATE" at the end of the prompt

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                • jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.ioJ jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io

                  Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful. It's just fucking magic incantations

                  Did you use this specific super power?
                  Did you ask it to explain itself?
                  Did you read it's thought process to see where it's getting overwhelmed?

                  No because none of that is real. It does not do any of those things. It confabulates statistically probable text, and it does that over and over until a control loop stops asking for more. That is the whole entire thing.

                  properlypurple@tech.lgbtP This user is from outside of this forum
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                  @jenniferplusplus It's the same thought process as using a slot machine, just a thousand times worse.

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