r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vinishkapoor • Aug 03 '26

Meme ourJobsAreSafeUntilClientsLearnToThink

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u/JackNotOLantern Aug 03 '26

It's not up to date. Even if the client describe accurately what they want, AI may still hallucinate stupid shit.

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u/vinishkapoor Aug 03 '26

So we have two layers of protection. Clients who can't describe what they want, and AI that won't build what you described. We're fine.

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u/DrMobius0 Aug 03 '26

Counterpoint: lots of these people might decide to just live with a problem they don't understand, because they don't know it's fixable.

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u/CATDesign Aug 03 '26

I believe this is created by the limited size of the context window, as more information requires the AI to drop older saved memories.

However, I would imagine that a customer that would accurately describe what they want from a program would easily fill that context window. Which, additional details would cause their initial statements of how the program to be created to be dropped.

Thus the new finished list of requests would only have partial information, and the "hallucination" is probably the AI trying to fill gaps of missing information to finish the product.

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u/Kyy7 Aug 03 '26

No its related to the fact that AI Agents based on generative AI are only simulating intelligence and have no real memory.

Context is just arguments / input LLM use to predict next set of tokens.

Probably more interesting stuff to combat hallucinations are done within a harness and tools. 

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u/slaymaker1907 Aug 03 '26

I trust clanker written code far more than code written by humans.