Why “LLM” is being discussed
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That LLM seems to rather mindlessly reproduce the Rust marketing idea that it is basically impossible or a huge effort to write safe C code. But yes, compilers are also really g…
by uecker · Oct 31, 2026
As a game designer the answer is very obvious: That's hard work! As a heavy LLM user there is another obvious answer: The LLM is very good at copying. I suppose those are two si…
by furyofantares · Oct 31, 2026
Show HN: Hey Spark – open-source voice assistant for your laptop, any LLM brain
by nagen · Oct 31, 2026 · 1 points
Should take only a few minutes to use an LLM to sync to upstream and build a new APK if you have any of the $20 subscriptions
by markasoftware · Oct 31, 2026
The French is pretty much word-for-word the same as the English, so the Claudeisms didn't come from translation. It's all the same LLM output.
by semilin · Oct 31, 2026
The question should really be the other way around - LLMs are just computer programs, and in general, computer programs are theoretically deterministic. Given the same inputs an…
by antonvs · Oct 31, 2026
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A large language model (LLM) is a machine learning model trained on a vast amount of text for natural language processing tasks, especially language generation. LLMs can typically generate, summarize, translate, and analyze text in many contexts. They are the basis for many modern chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Qwen and DeepSeek. Read more on Wikipedia