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by assimpleaspossi 577 days ago
How did the people who wrote the LLM and associated software do it when they had no such thing to "just look it up"?
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Stackoverflow/stack exchange was a proto-LLM. Basically the same thing but 1-2 day latency for replies.

In 20 years we'll be able to tell this in a stereotypically old geezer way: "You kids have it easy, back in my day we had to wait for an actual human to reply to our daft questions.. and sometimes nobody would bother at all!"

yeah search in general, bulletin boards, shared knowledge bases, etc.