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by lxgr 579 days ago
Then they might indeed not be the right tool for what you're trying to do.

I'm just a little bit tired of sweeping generalizations like "LLMs are completely broken". You can easily use them as a tool part of a process that then ends up being broken (because it's the wrong tool!), yet that doesn't disqualify them for all tool use.

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Yeah but the sampling process required to determine what they are good at is not free either. (For starters, it's consuming huge amounts of public research funding and compute, but let's not go down that rabbit-hole)