Comment Re:Dick (Score 2) 88
(*) Advice does not apply if your profession is the oldest in the world.
(*) Advice does not apply if your profession is the oldest in the world.
I don't quibble with your statements about LLM, I even agree with them, but the electronic calculator has exactly the same issues in the numerical domain, mutatis mutandis. The answers spat out by a handheld electronic calculator come with very weak guarantees of accuracy which simply don't survive moderately complex calculations. And the calculator never produces a confidence estimate.
I think that's wrong, the internet is not inherently lawless, it only is so by a deliberate political choice going back to the early Al Gore/Bill Clinton days.
Corporations exist in meatspace, and must follow the laws where they are based. As the liberal world is slowly disappearing and gets replaced by lots of authoritarian states, you can expect each and every meatspace restriction to become the norm on the Internet.
Because all that is needed is to send in the police into a corporation's headquarters, or a startup student's dormroom, and they will fall in line. And don't think this will cause the authoritarians to lose any sleep over it.
There are way more interesting and advanced safety questions out there. Even Perl had the concept of tainted variables.
Maybe Rust is a case of NIH syndrome?
Your last point is quite agreeable though. In all such cases, it is necessary to write the actual answer down first, if you want to assess if the computer answer is within tolerance. The trick is to find a way to write the actual answer which doesn't require writing the actual answer explicitly. That way the comparison between the real answer and the computer answer can be implied.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.