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The vibecoders are becoming sentient (waterloolemmy.ca)
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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I don't think it has much to do with how "complex or not" it is, but rather how common it is.

It can completely fail on very simple things that are just a bit obscure, so it has too little training data.

And it can do very complex things if there's enough training data on those things.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yes exactly.

    "Implement a first order lowpass filter in C"

    LLM has no issue.

    "Implement a string reversal function in Wren"

    LLM proceeds to output an unholy mix of python and JavaScript.

    Even though the second task is trivial compared to the first, LLMs have almost no training data on Wren (an obscure semi-dead language).

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