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[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You attach an epoch timestamp to the initial message and then you see how much time has passed since then. Does this sound like rocket surgery?

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

How does the LLM check the timestamps without a prompt? By continually prompting? In which case, you are the timer.

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s running in memory… I’m not going to explain it, just ask an AI if it exists when you don’t prompt it

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not how that works.

LLMs execute on request. They tend not to be scheduled to evaluate once in a while since that would be crazy wasteful.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Edit to add: I know I'm not replying to the bad mansplainer.

LLM != TSR

Do people even use TSR as a phrase anymore? I don't really see it in use much, probably because it's more the norm than exception in modern computing.

TSR = old techy speak, Terminate and Stay Resident. Back when RAM was more limited (hey and maybe again soon with these prices!) programs were often run once and done, they ran and were flushed from RAM. Anything that needed to continue running in the background was a TSR.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Please tell me why you believe that the LLM keeps being executed on your chat even when the response is complete.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I was agreeing with you, it doesn't.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ohh, that makes sense.

I wouldn't have gotten that abbreviation without the explainer. Good on you for explaining it. Never heard it working in tech.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

It is of the deep magics from the before times.

The days of DOS.