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by behnamoh 1065 days ago
guidance is a dead project. it worked well as a hobby side project by MS researchers, but it clearly isn't a long-term solution as new LLMs are introduced.
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Would you be able and willing to provide a bit more supporting evidence for this statement? We’ve been considering trialing guidance for a few weeks but won’t bother if it’s going nowhere.
I am unclear on the status of the project but here is the conversation that seem to be tracking it: https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/discussions/201
Okay interesting, thanks. There does seem to be some recent activity on the `pythonic` branch but yeah, it does look like the open issues have been going ignored for a while now.
If it helps I tried using it and the basic examples just straight up didn't work at all and regularly got broken in different ways. Even if it's going somewhere it was unusable for a serious project. I moved to custom code and left it on the "watch this project" list for the future.
It does help, thank you. We’re going to put it on pause for now, too.
What about LMQL?
I hadn't heard of LMQL before - have you tried building with it and, if so, would you be willing to share your experience?