Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: phoenix Newsgroups: alt.slack Subject: Re: Why AI is broken Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:27:03 -0600 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <6c642d57-005e-21b4-5357-50861537b9bb@shinku.aoyagi.konjou> <159540c8-303c-677b-1aa0-597cb85ab6c1@shinku.aoyagi.konjou> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 4sLVBBbYQrpwjACEG5py6AJKlBG37xeQEAO/T4U59ZDq2k/XcK Cancel-Lock: sha1:bAJ+rovbNp2Z16OY925lHMxSme8= sha256:+hkayy3UuE5R14Ay61MbBjr6zsOj4nu+SaRdVMdiHJY= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.23 In-Reply-To: <159540c8-303c-677b-1aa0-597cb85ab6c1@shinku.aoyagi.konjou> Xref: csiph.com alt.slack:505397 jojo wrote: > phoenix wrote: >> phoenix wrote: >>> phoenix wrote: >>>> jojo wrote: >>>>> phoenix wrote: >>>>>> LLM read jojo over and over as if Hitlar's veganism is a talking >>>>>> point. AI don't know obscure. >>>>> >>>>> you have to know what you are asking first. you dont know, >>>>> unfortunately. >>>>> >>>>> but you can ask the model to refine your question, ask it to give >>>>> you 5 questions based on your framing. >>>>> >>>> Dude I use AI just as much as you. Twice I've been working on >>>> problems with AI when they get fixed into a rut saying it's this or >>>> that, your obscure solution is fundamentally powerless. Maybe I need >>>> to be meaner with my AI and fully correct them every time they make >>>> a mistake. >>> >>> And it's important too. The AI is suggesting a two-dimensional array >>> where I have two one-dimensional arrays. This is a fundamental >>> slowdown that I refuse to tolerate rather getting my way to work by >>> keeping one of the lists up to date on some stuff. >> >> In jojo language this is N^2 data points where mine has 2*N. I don't >> particularly like N^2 complexity in anything because I deal with big >> data. > > you have to treat it like a tool, like a scissor. you dont put the > scissor on the paper and expect things to get cut. > > that is what the whole domain of prompt engineering deals with. > It's possible. I want to tell the AI I care about speed more than anything, even correctness. -- pBkHHoOIIn8