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Part of the appeal of LLMs, I think, is that they may the tantalizing false promise of allowing humans to give instructions to computers expecting the same kind of common-sense interpretation we expect of humans.

Bad news, kids: it’s still a machine. •Somewhere• in the chain, it becomes unambiguous. And that moment where we cross the threshold from ambiguous, contextualized human interpretation to unambiguous machine instructions — •that• is the moment of programming. There live the demons.

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