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

by kurinikku on 1/17/25, 11:39 PM with 1 comments

  • by Terr_ on 1/18/25, 12:58 AM

    > Confidence Signaling: AI assistants could provide clear, reliable indicators of their confidence

    I'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.

    What we want is the confidence of the author that their character is proposing good ideas that will work... However the only confidence the real-world LLM can offer is "how much trouble did I have finding a next word that seems to fit."