Comment by fellowniusmonk
6 days ago
Frankly, as someone who is engaged in fields where LLMs can be used heavily.
I would stay in any high danger/high precision/high regulation role.
The speed at which LLM stuff is progressing is insane, what is cutting edge today wasn't available 6 months ago.
Keep up as a side hobby if you wish, I would definitely recommend that, but I just have to imagine that in 2 years a turnkey github project will get you pretty much all the way there.
Idk, that's my feeling fwiw.
I love LLMs but I'm much less confident that people and regulation will keep up with this new world in a way that benefits the very people who created the content that LLMs are built on.
> The speed at which LLM stuff is progressing is insane
You clearly haven't been following the space or maybe following too much.
Because the progress has been pretty slow over the last years.
Yes modals are cheaper and faster but they aren't substantially better.
Over the last years? As in two years or more? Could you explain that a bit more?
I consider "LLM stuff" to be all inclusive of the eco-system of "coding with LLMs" in the current threads context, not specific models.
Would you still say, now that the definition has been clarified, that there has been slow progress in the last 2+ years?
I am also curious if you could clarify where we would need to be today for you to consider it "fast progress"? Maybe there is a generational gap between us in defining fast vs slow progress?