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AI Coding Assistant Is Gaslighting You – The Hidden Cost of Uncertainty

4 pointsby kurinikku4 months ago

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Terr_4 months ago
&gt; Confidence Signaling: AI assistants could provide clear, reliable indicators of their confidence<p>I&#x27;m not sure this is possible: In most LLM applications we humans are perceiving the (un-)confidence from the lines given to a fictional robotic story character. Simply change the name of the character to Zap Brannigan and it becomes a confident expert on everything.<p>What we <i>want</i> is the confidence of the author that their character is proposing good ideas that will <i>work</i>... However the only confidence the real-world LLM can offer is &quot;how much trouble did I have finding a next word that seems to fit.&quot;