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LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code

danjc — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:17:30 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/katanalarp/status/2029928471632224486

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284998

Points: 5

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New comment by danjc in "Don't trust AI agents"

danjc — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:28:22 +0000

I've been waiting for someone to say this. An agent will generally produce far more code than technically necessary for the task. It's a kind of over engineering which makes it increasingly harder to wrap your head around the codebase.

New comment by danjc in "Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image"

danjc — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:51:51 +0000

The issue is provenance. We need cameras and phones to digitally sign photos so we can easily verify an unadulterated image.

You also want to be able chain signing so that for example a news reporter could take a photo, then the news outlet could attest its authenticity by adding their signature on top.

Same principle could be applied to video and text.

New comment by danjc in "We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3""

danjc — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:18:55 +0000

I'd it's processed in 2 seconds, why not just process it immediately in memory?

New comment by danjc in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"

danjc — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:43:47 +0000

It's all jit context

New comment by danjc in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

danjc — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:23:25 +0000

It looks like true 0-temperature (i.e. determinism) will happen. Here's some good context: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...

New comment by danjc in "You’re a slow thinker. Now what?"

danjc — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:47:10 +0000

You can just call yourself a reasoning model now

New comment by danjc in "OpenAI’s latest research paper demonstrates that falsehoods are inevitable"

danjc — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 18:06:22 +0000

This is written by someone who has no idea how transformers actually work

New comment by danjc in "ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access"

danjc — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:25:12 +0000

I think you've nailed it there. OpenAI are at a point where the risk of continuing to hedge on mcp outweighs the risk of mcp calls doing damage.

New comment by danjc in "The staff ate it later"

danjc — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 10:50:27 +0000

Once you notice characters aren't eating, you'll never not see it again.

Related, where they're drinking coffee from a disposable cup, you can almost always tell it's empty by how they handle it.

New comment by danjc in "The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report"

danjc — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 08:55:04 +0000

This is true for all crime.

New comment by danjc in "GPT-5"

danjc — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 05:33:59 +0000

> describe gpt 5 in one word

> incremental

New comment by danjc in "I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well"

danjc — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:22:18 +0000

What's missing here is tool use.

For example, if the llm had a compile tool it would likely have been able to correct syntax errors.

Similarly, visual errors may also have been caught if it were able to run the program and capture screens.

New comment by danjc in "Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool"

danjc — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 07:53:37 +0000

So, basically the same as Adobe with PDF

New comment by danjc in "The death of partying in the USA"

danjc — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:37:07 +0000

One aspect to consider is that the vast proportion of content in automated feeds isn't even sincere - it's just engagement farming.

New comment by danjc in "Amazon is on the cusp of using more robots than humans in its warehouses"

danjc — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:33:01 +0000

That would be bad for anyone selling stuff

New comment by danjc in "Show HN: Sink – Sync any directory with any device on your local network"

danjc — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 23:04:35 +0000

I have a few qualms with this app ;)

New comment by danjc in "Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified"

danjc — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 05:57:44 +0000

Unfortunately, carrying a SOC 2 attestation won't save you from vendor questionnaires (and one-off security asks), but it will make them easier. ;)

New comment by danjc in "NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System"

danjc — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:13:22 +0000

Which side of the wall were you on?

New comment by danjc in "A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)"

danjc — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 20:21:23 +0000

It would be awesome if you could encode data using this technique