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LLMs are not magic

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Filip Hric

12th February 2025

LLMs ARE NOT MAGIC

Hello Reader,
Ever wondered why ChatGPT sometimes gives odd or completely wrong answers? My personal guess is that we tend to treat them like magic. Or treat them like a person. But they are none of that.

Andrej Karpathy goes deep in this 3 and half hour video on what LLMs are, how are they trained, programmed to fix their own biases and more. If you ever used ChatGPT or any other LLM, I think it’s a great watch to set your mental model straight and understand how to properly interact with these models and understand why they give good and bad results. It’s absolutely worth watching, it opened my eyes.

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Filip Hric

Teaching testers about development, and developers about testing

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