Comment by jasonfarnon
6 days ago
I don't really get this argument. Technology can be improving can't it? You're just saying that people saying it's improving, isn't a great signal. Maybe not, but you still don't conclude that the tech isn't improving, right? If you're old enough, remember the internet was very much hyped. Al gore was involved. But it's probably been every bit as transformative as promised.
Technology improving is not the issue.
1. LLM fanboy: "LLMs are awesome, they can do x, y, and z really well."
2. LLM skeptic: "OK, but I tried them and found them wanting for doing x, y, and z"
3. LLM fanboy: "You're doing it wrong. Do it this way ..."
4. The LLM skeptic goes to try it that way, still finds it unsatisfactory. A few months pass....
5. LLM fanboy: "Hey, have you tried model a.b.c-new? The problems with doing x, y, and z have now been fixed" (implicitly now agrees that the original complaints were valid)
6. LLM skeptic: "What the heck, I though you denied there were problems with LLMs doing x, y, and z? And I still have problems getting them to do it well"
7. Goto 3