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alextillman

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    Comment #48388299

    Right, but you still don't know that the big model has exactly the same "jargon" handling as you do. Plus it means that you can't use smaller models not trained on that jargon. Tha…

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    Comment #48384448

    This doesn't resonate: Consider this prompt: Make sure that, whenever a job runs, we can tell where it started from, who triggered it, what settings were passed in, and what change…

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    Comment #48376863

    What's old is new again. The solution RSS offered was structure for an otherwise unstructured challenge (trying to figure out updates on a site). That value grew exponentially when…

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    Comment #48357667

    Nothing mentioned here is specific to AI. EVERY SaaS service is designed to monetize engagement rather than provide the nest service. These services typically use dark patterns lea…

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    Comment #48349875

    "So the next time you get AI to generate something for you, be wary of the early output. Be critical, demanding, and opinionated on what needs to be improved. An amateur considers …

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    Comment #48349821

    This does not seem remotely true in my experience. This seems like more “Bad prompt generated entirely predictable garbage results” rather than “We rigorously tested different scen…

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    Comment #48330169

    And those US hosted versions of DeepSeek etc. are still far cheaper than the big (frontier) US companies... just not as cheap as the Chinese hosted sites.

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    Comment #48330143

    Makes sense in terms of public information. But the thing is if you use a foreign-hosted tech, you don’t know what is doing with ALL data you signed up with. You can use Chinese mo…

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    Comment #48322689

    This misses out on what AI (when used properly) can do. If I build my own CRM that uses off the shelf AI (collects form data, searches for relevant social media and company informa…

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    Comment #48315384

    This is like a major highway. They get overloaded at rush hour, so they build lanes to accommodate peak traffic. But travel any highway at 2AM (outside of LA/NYC sized metropolises…

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    Comment #48308300

    This is because the current AI approach relies on AI to be a glorified search engine – know everything about everything requiring enormous, ever growing models, and demanding searc…

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    Comment #48299409

    The AI economic bubble is not because AI is useless. There was a paper recently that highlighted how AI is diagnosing pancreatic cancer patients years before humans do. This is not…

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    Comment #48287002

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