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Using LLMs at Oxide

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694 points steveklabnik | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 01:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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csb6 ◴[07 Dec 25 06:11 UTC] No.46179547[source]▶
Strange to see no mention of potential copyright violations found in LLM-generated code (e.g. LLMs reproducing code from Github verbatim without respecting the license). I would think that would be a pretty important consideration for any software development company, especially one that produces so much free software.
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dboreham ◴[07 Dec 25 06:40 UTC] No.46179678[source]▶
Is there current generation LLMs do this? I suppose I mean "do this any more than human developers do".
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theresistor ◴[07 Dec 25 07:52 UTC] No.46180015[source]▶
A very recent example: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369
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phyzome ◴[07 Dec 25 08:16 UTC] No.46180102[source]▶
...what a remarkable thread.
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menaerus ◴[07 Dec 25 09:53 UTC] No.46180509[source]▶
Right? If this is really true, that some random folk without compiler engineering experience, implemented a completely new feature in ocaml compiler by prompting the LLM to produce the code for him, then I think it really is remarkable.
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ccortes ◴[07 Dec 25 13:17 UTC] No.46181474[source]▶
Oh wow, is that what you got from this?

It seems more like a non experienced guy asked the LLM to implement something and the LLM just output what and experienced guy did before, and it even gave him the credit

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1. menaerus ◴[07 Dec 25 16:15 UTC] No.46182770{3}[source]▶
Did you take a look at the code? Given your response I figure you did not because if you did you would see that the code was _not_ cloned but genuinely compiled by the LLM.