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wrs on July 15, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: LLM Inevitabilism

That's what a "margin of error" is. The margin of error of a bridge is predictable thanks to well-established techniques of physical analysis.

An LLM system, on the other hand, can fail because you moved some punctuation around.

bluefirebrand on July 16, 2025 [–]

> An LLM system, on the other hand, can fail because you moved some punctuation around

An LLM system can fail without changing anything, it could just fail more or less randomly without any way to diagnose why it happened

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