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LLMs can’t reason — they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training data (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know someone who was hired (around turn of the century) because they knew how to xml with a certain kind of then-important big systems api

the stories I’ve heard from there are hilarious

but is also incredibly ease to create proprietary semantics with

christ the shit I’ve seen with network vendors…. shibboleth NETCONF/YANG. advance warning; abyss grade 6+

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And yet there are some tasks I wish I could do in NETCONF instead of the thing we're actually using, but apparently the documentation for this interface is difficult and expensive for the company to get my hands on, for reasons.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ikwym, that’s part of the set of crimes I was pointing to

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago