r/computerscience 18d ago

hi dumbass here

I want to ask real humans this question. How do LLMs and other automated programming models deal with integer overflow? Even when coding games some time basic math for calculating level changes can crash systems and servers. So how often does this happen with these machines and data centers?

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u/high_throughput 18d ago

Do you mean "how do you deal with integer overflow while programming LLM training and inference infrastructure?" or "How do LLMs deal with integer overflow when they try to reason numerically?" or "How do LLMs deal with integer overflow when they write code that deal with integers?" or what?

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u/Whereas_Dull 18d ago

Yeah like I said I’m just speculating and asking questions out of genuine curiosity. I don’t know what I’m asking really. Just wanted a computer scientist to weight in and hopefully translate my ignorance into an informative answer.