jiggawatts 3 days ago

A Haskell quote I like is: “I’ve only proven this correct, I haven’t tried it.”

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neilwilson 3 days ago

Isn’t that one of Dijkstra’s supposed comments?

OskarS 3 days ago

It's Knuth! [1]

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

[1]: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html

jiggawatts 3 days ago

It's incredible that given how fuzzy and inaccurate human memory is, we treat any LLM that can't perfectly recite volumes of information as somehow beneath us.