Every time I try to use an LLM, it always gets things terribly wrong. Nvlist binary format is undocumented. Ask an LLM for it and of course it gets confused with OpenZFS similarly named nvpair, and talks about that (don't know if it's correct or not, but probably isn't from what I briefly saw).
I really don't understand how anyone uses this stuff for work.
feld
in reply to John-Mark Gurney • • •you can't just ask it for answers and expect good results from only its internal corpus. Always request that it use official docs or provide it links to docs / code and tell it to reference that before answering.
then it can do amazing things quickly
John-Mark Gurney
in reply to feld • • •@feld
I expect it to have FreeBSD's source code from anytime in the last 10 years in its corpus.
If I have to hunt down and provide source/docs for it, I might as well look at them myself to understand it and not depend upon an LLM to do so.
I even tried a 120b model, and it still gave me the incorrect response.
feld
in reply to John-Mark Gurney • • •> If I have to hunt down and provide source/docs for it, I might as well look at them myself to understand it and not depend upon an LLM to do so.
yeah true, but when it's something without good docs or really confusing docs without examples, or projects where I have no idea what the structure is I find it very useful as it can read and find what I'm looking for faster than I can by grep-guessing