> ”hallucination” is what we call it when LLMs get code wrong; “engineering” is what we call it when people do.
When people get it wrong, we call that a mistake. LLMs don't get the privilege of making mistakes, because there's no evidence of the idea required for something to even be a mistake. Can't call something unintended when there was no intention to begin with. (You absolutely can call it a mistake or unintended on the part of an operator -- I wouldn't say so of the LLM itself though.)
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When people get it wrong, we call that a mistake. LLMs don't get the privilege of making mistakes, because there's no evidence of the idea required for something to even be a mistake. Can't call something unintended when there was no intention to begin with. (You absolutely can call it a mistake or unintended on the part of an operator -- I wouldn't say so of the LLM itself though.)