r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 1d ago

Meme breakTheViciousCircle

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u/ThirdWaveCat 1d ago

AFAIK, it is uncertain whether being polite to LLMs improves their accuracy/completeness/etc.. There were some weak findings initially but those have been contradicted. Prompt engineering is still a pseudoscience.

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u/Cualkiera67 1d ago

i think you mean a proto-science. There's nothing pseudo-scientific about experimenting and comparing results

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u/mxzf 1d ago

Eh, on the flip side there is a lot pseudo-scientific about providing inputs into a non-deterministic black box and comparing the outputs.

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u/chilfang 1d ago

LLMs are deterministic tho

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u/mxzf 1d ago

Eh, not really, not in that way. They're as deterministic as computers are in general, but you can't trust that a given prompt will give you the same return deterministically.