alt Hacker NewsI've been equating them to graphing calculators since the first LLM launched. It's an amazing tool if you know how to use it. If you don't know how to use it, it's still a tool, but you won't be doing anything amazing with it.
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cduzz • today at 1:02 AM
LLMs are golden retrievers that have memorized all of wikipedia
27183 • today at 12:52 AM
maybe outing myself as a dinosaur, but "back in my day" the calculator came with a book that detailed exactly how to use it. Both the high level basic language and the low level system language. Not knowing how to use it is simply a failure to Read The Fucking Manual.
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Nice analogy.
I loved graphing calculators until I learned tools like Mathematica and Matlab. Still waiting for the Mathematica version of LLMs.
Agents / loop engineering / whatever is hot with the AI Twitter kids still isn’t it.