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by lynnesbian 315 days ago
I can provide a real-world example: Low-latency code completion.

The JetBrains suite includes a few LLM models on the order of a hundred megabytes. These models are able to provide "obvious" line completion, like filling in variable names, as well as some basic predictions, like realising that the `if let` statement I'm typing out is going to look something like `if let Some(response) = client_i_just_created.foobar().await`.

If that was running in The Cloud, it would have latency issues, rate limits, and it wouldn't work offline. Sure, there's a pretty big gap between these local IDE LLMs and what OpenAI is offering here, but if my single-line autocomplete could be a little smarter, I sure wouldn't complain.

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I don't have latency issue with github copilot. Maybe i'm less sensitive to it.