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by isaacremuant 499 days ago
Not that I don't love LLMs and play with them and their potential but if we don't get proper mechanism that ensure quality and consistency then it's not really a substitute for what we have.

It's very easy to produce something that seemingly works but you can't attest to its quality. The problem is producing something resilient, that is easy to adapt and describes the domain of what you want to do.

If all these things are so great, them why do I still need to do so many things to integrate a bigtech cloud agent with popular tool? Why is it so costly or limited?

UX matters, validation matters, reliability matters, cost matters.

You can't simply wish for a problem not to happen. Someone owns the troubleshooting and the modification and they need to understand the system they're trying to modify.

Replacing scrapers with LLM is an easy and obvious thing, specially when you don't care about quality to a high degree. Other systems such as financial ones don't have that luxury.