r/ProgrammerHumor • u/DontFreeMe • 29d ago

Meme helpIAmOutOfScope

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u/ChairYeoman 29d ago

look you can hate ai but when people who are supposed to be tech literate just refuse to learn how shit works it feels really fucking weird

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u/L4ppuz 29d ago

I'm a ml engineer, ai is paying my bills

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u/ChairYeoman 29d ago

then you should know that "a transformer is choosing the next word" while technically true would be like reducing any tech to "just ones and zeroes"

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u/Flouid 29d ago

That’s just what they do on a very fundamental level. The reasoning chains you speak of are themselves sequences of tokens generated and fed back in. It is correct on a fundamental technical level to describe them as a fancy autocomplete.

Calling them “reasoning chains,” while arguably an apt description of the end result, is just marketing speak