Re: The secret of standard.

From	cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: The secret of standard.
Date	2026-05-04 00:58 +0000
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In article <10t8o1c$39gdr$4@kst.eternal-september.org>,
Keith Thompson  <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
>Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:
>> kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) writes:
>> [...]
>>>> The trouble comes with things that you can't check, or don't check. 
>>>> LLM's make up stuff that sounds plausible, and make no distinction 
>>>> between reality and hallucinations.
>> [...]
>>
>> My own very limited experience with LLMs (not attempting to use them
>> to read or generate code) is that they appear to be optimized for
>> clarity and plausiblity, *not* for accuracy.
>
>And they're probably less likely than I am to misspell "plausibility".

I wouldn't be so sure about that....

	- Dan C.

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