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New comment by inspectorSlap in "Grok 4.5"

inspectorSlap — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:04:12 +0000

Has anyone actually used Grok to code? How does he do?

New comment by inspectorSlap in "Automating AI Away"

inspectorSlap — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:02:27 +0000

This is exactly right. Abstracted out of the process, or to a point of most optimal application.

New comment by inspectorSlap in "Automating AI Away"

inspectorSlap — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:55:26 +0000

I find some of the most interesting, and catastrophic failures in my agent fine-tuning come from the clamping down of non-determinism. It is totally the correct approach, but must be handled delicately. The non-deterministic core remains, but now under bimodal pressure.

New comment by inspectorSlap in "What Emily Bender meant by "stochastic parrots""

inspectorSlap — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:29:29 +0000

I think stochastic parroting is really a very accurate description of what they do (if underserving of the overall usefulness of LLMs). As long as you consider they are parroting from the whole of human intelligence. Its just that as they have gotten more sophisticated, the amount of gates, guardrails, and tertiary tools add variety. Trace any LLM hallucination back to provenance and you begin to see how the stochastic parrot works.