> For nearly all tasks, I want the fastest and smartest AI model.
This is not nearly true for everyone else in the world.
For example, think about the world in ~2021 pre-LLM. Would anyone say the sentence "I only want the fastest and smartest humans working on my project"?
No of course not. Most people don't want to pay $10 million dollar salary to the best programmers in the world. They prefer to pay $200k salary to a median programmer and that's good enough for their ecommerce website.
eggbrain · · focus · HN ↗
If local LLMs get "good" enough, people will soon paying for subscriptions to ChatGPT and Claude, which hurts their revenue.
londons_explore · · focus · HN ↗
It is vanishingly rare I ask an older model to do any task. Newer bigger and smarter models will just do the task better.
Therefore, I believe we are nowhere near 'good enough'.
I never drive my steam engine to work these days. It isn't good enough.
gretch · · focus · HN ↗
This is not nearly true for everyone else in the world.
For example, think about the world in ~2021 pre-LLM. Would anyone say the sentence "I only want the fastest and smartest humans working on my project"?
No of course not. Most people don't want to pay $10 million dollar salary to the best programmers in the world. They prefer to pay $200k salary to a median programmer and that's good enough for their ecommerce website.
tyre · · focus · HN ↗
But so many teams said they wanted to Raise the Bar to infinity and hire a World Class Team.