A lot of the internal automations companies build with llms also aren’t pure llms (neither are claude or ChatGPT), there’s so many little models that have to fit into it for the stack of cards not to fall apart. I’m more on the quantitative modeling side, but I’ve been tasked with helping the ai team, and I’m having fun with it because most of the problems we’re running into are like “how would google or yahoo have approached this in the early 2000s?”
Isn’t a feature like that usually coming from like a linter rather than a compiler? In any case, the thing that pisses me off most with python is the way variables and scoping works, if I make a typo in a variable name that exists in a function declaration and in the global scope it’s so hard to debug because python will just use the global variable in the function without complaining
sometimes it’s at least tenuously connected because it uses transformers, or some technique with enough pieces that could be sped up by tensor cores, but that isn’t even always the case.
Every defence of why the llm hype isn’t a waste of resources is like
yeah well have you heard of this classic ML/deep learning technique that cures cancer/makes plasma calculations more efficiently. Like yeah I have because that was around when I was an undergrad and it ran on a cluster of PS3s.
Getting choked to death because you forgot to drop by the book store or chose the wrong book seems like something that would happen in a visual novel roguelike game.
I know it’s technically more practical and there’s real world projects that use it now, but to me it feels almost like scheme. Like a language reverse engineered to be annoying for pedagogical reasons.
I think the common piece might be that the subject matter is inherently interesting, but it’s superficially boring so directors have to make it all more dynamic with sound design and framing. Kind of how dog day afternoon and 12 angry men go extremely hard just because you kind of have to to make a single location movie enjoyable.
It feels silly to say, but all the president’s men is a very analogue movie. The click of typewriters, papers slapping the table as they do research, using physical objects as a way to signal each other.
