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trollbridge • yesterday at 7:14 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Training classifiers is shockingly easy nowadays with LLMs. This is probably the biggest single piece of bespoke software I ship that I didn’t used to.

We have in the works a classifier for if a prospective customer will be long term profitable or not. This changes everything.


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suoloordi • yesterday at 8:47 PM

> We have in the works a classifier for if a prospective customer will be long term profitable or not

I'm curious, why do you use a classifier for long-term profitability? Wouldn't predicting expected lifetime profit with a forecasting model be more meaningful than just predicting whether a customer will be profitable or not?

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