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LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways

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54 points tudorizer | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.251s | source
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felineflock ◴[24 Jun 25 22:28 UTC] No.44371711[source]▶
It is a new nature of abstraction, not a new level.

UP: It lets us state intent in plain language, specs, or examples. We can ask the model to invent code, tests, docs, diagrams—tasks that previously needed human translation from intention to syntax.

BUT SIDEWAYS: Generation is a probability distribution over tokens. Outputs vary with sampling temperature, seed, context length, and even with identical prompts.

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1. genidoi ◴[28 Jun 25 09:43 UTC] No.44403438[source]▶
This is too abstract and a concrete example of what this looks like in output is needed.