#4732 LLMs: Turning Lemons into Lemonade
#4732 LLMs: Turning Lemons into Lemonade #4732 Let us consider that LLM as a source of truth and reasoning are 80% good and 20% crap. How can we make lemonade out of lemons? To turn an 80% reliable, 20% unreliable system into a net positive, treat the model as a high-speed proposal engine rather than an authoritative oracle. When generation is cheap and verification is fast, an imperfect tool becomes extremely powerful if placed in the right workflows. 1. Asymmetric Verification (Easy to Check, Hard to Generate) Direct LLMs toward tasks where creating the first draft from scratch takes significant human effort, but verifying its correctness takes seconds. Coding & Boilerplate: Writing 50 lines of regular expressions, SQL queries, or unit tests is tedious; running them against test cases or compilers instantly exposes the 20% error rate. Brainstorming & Exploration: Coming up with 20 marketing angles, feature ideas, or edge cases is hard; pruning the 4 bad ones takes alm...