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As we continue developing our software, we accumulate a growing amount of technical debt just to keep the system running. But I believe we are on the brink of an even larger issue. Cognitive debt.

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can try to reason about it which is an arguable improvement from the former engineer you can't get ahold of anymore. So you can could see that it triggered a node associated with c++ when it generated this string of tokens or compare it other generations to map it to a type of call.

Where it doesn't compare to a human engineer at the moment is quality or novelty.

[–] wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But you can't?

It didn't reason its way down a branch, it made coinflips all along the way. So its not actually thinking, just weighted coin flips. There's no 'why' it chose a branch. Just the result of a coin flip.

You can't ask a coin why it chose heads. You can unroll the physics of it all day long til the cow comes home. But it still doesn't help you on the next one.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not really coin flips it and random adjustments of weighted values that decides which nodes are activated which, plus random adjustments, influences the next node activation until out

[–] wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Statistical outputs are not as interesting as you think?

Like sure, but its still just a probabilistic outcome. Not one reasoned at any step.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I mean it is a semantic collection of weights tied to tokens (fractions of written language). There is also tool calls which could be analysied for additional input analys.