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Some thoughts on LLMs and software development

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416 points floverfelt | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 18:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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sebnukem2 ◴[28 Aug 25 19:28 UTC] No.45056066[source]▶
> hallucinations aren’t a bug of LLMs, they are a feature. Indeed they are the feature. All an LLM does is produce hallucinations, it’s just that we find some of them useful.

Nice.

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tptacek ◴[28 Aug 25 19:48 UTC] No.45056284[source]▶
In that framing, you can look at an agent as simply a filter on those hallucinations.
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1. th0ma5 ◴[28 Aug 25 19:55 UTC] No.45056346[source]▶
Yes yes, with yet to be discovered holes