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Comment by philipwhiuk

4 hours ago

> On one hand, the output of locally run inference is astounding. There are plenty of models on HuggingFace that I can run on my Mac Studio and provide real value to me every single work day. On the other hand, while I have the experience to evaluate the output, some of my younger colleagues do not. They are learning, and when I have time to help them, I certainly do, but I wish they just didn't have access to LLMs. LLMs are miracle tools in the right hands. They are dangerous conveniences in the wrong hands.

Is weird to me. Surely you recognise just as they don't know what they don't know (which is presumably the problem when it hallucinates), you must also have the same issue, there's just no old greybeard to wish you didn't have access.

Well, I'm the graybeard (literally and metaphorically). I know enough not to blindly trust the LLM, and I know enough to test everything whether written by human or machine. This is not always true of younger professionals.