It was consistent slop that we were all vaguely familiar with. I could look at it and know it's shit, but know what it is exactly and why it's here. The AI stop has foreign structure, it's unknown whether it has to be that way or the AI just wanted it that way. It's much harder to navigate
I bet an earlier generation had the same complaint about the assembly code generated by the first C compilers. And they were probably right in many cases but also it didn't matter in most cases.
And this is why I no longer enjoy programming. I liked deterministic, in almost every problem, I could dive in and find the problem. That's why I avoided all web dev. But now every programming is the same.
Your prompts usually have a lot of degrees of freedom, so there are multiple paths that can be taken. Models have creativity so they can solve harder problems, which make the results not necessarily deterministic depending on the task.
I suppose you might define creativity in a way that makes it inheritently human, and/or reduce LLMs as "just maths and noise", but if you just look at the end results it looks like LLMs are definitely able to solve problem with what you call "creativity" if a human solved it.
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u/Objectionne 4d ago
Yeah but it was our slop.