[exsomet]

I’ve been looking at it in the same sense as something like Docker. When containers first became a big hype, everyone everywhere was using them for everything, including things like trying to containerize full desktop environments, which outside of a couple niche businesses makes almost no sense.

Similar to containers, my feeling is that the truth is LLMs are wildly overkill for almost everything going on today. You don’t need an LLM to sort some already structured data when a basic python library or something will work equally fast, predictably, and with less black box magic. There’s probably a small number of use cases that it makes sense for but for everyone else it’s just silly to try and force the technology. It doesn’t help that the people who are selling the shovels in this gold rush are extremely good at extending the hype train every few months, but eventually when these models stop being sold at a loss and businesses have to start facing down with the bill to run them and/or make these API calls, it will correct itself real fast.