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I have tried and failed to get any LLM to "tell me if you don't have a solution". There may be a way to prompt it, but I've not discovered it. It will always gi
by panza 1y ago
I have tried and failed to get any LLM to "tell me if you don't have a solution". There may be a way to prompt it, but I've not discovered it. It will always give you a confident answer.
- viraptor 1y agoIt always has a solution. A more effective approach is "Start by asking clarifying questions until the task is completely defined".
- pron 1y agoBut the questions I'm interested in cannot be asked until the programmer starts to code. It's not that the task is unclear, but that coding reveals important subtleties.
- viraptor 1y agoYou're thinking about it like a human programmer. It may or may not find that part tricky. There will be subtleties it will solve without even mentioning and there will be other stuff it fails on miserably. You improve the chances by asking to ask questions. But again - just try it. Try it on exactly the thing you've already described and see how it goes.
- fivestones 1y agoThis, exactly