http://programmer.ie/tags/statistics/ Recent content in Statistics on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:07 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/07-chapter/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:07 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/07-chapter/ <p><em>Part 1 — Where You Stand</em></p> <h2 id="the-thing-the-marketing-does-not-cover">The thing the marketing does not cover</h2> <p>Every vendor will sell you more capability. None of them can sell you direction.</p> <p>A more capable model pointed at the wrong objective does not produce less wrong work. It produces <em>better-executed</em> wrong work at greater volume, wrapped in more convincing prose. The gap between what you wanted and what you got does not shrink with capability. Frequently it widens, because a weaker model&rsquo;s output was obviously off and a stronger model&rsquo;s output is plausibly off.</p>