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IanCal 24 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them...

I really don't think that's the definition of a program.

> You want it to run until you tell it to stop,

No? Many programs I don't want to run until I tell them to stop.

Even then, this reduces it to irrelevance.

withinboredom 24 days ago [–]

Yeah, sorry, I wasn’t clear: not the user, the programmer. This is true for almost all programs. Even a simple “print hello world” involves at least one intentional infinite loop: sending bytes to the buffer. The buffer could remain full forever.

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