Comment by nzeid
6 hours ago
This is a bit of a strawman. The parent comment wasn't suggesting that the inherent defects magically disappear nor was it suggesting that local inference today is sufficient for all tasks.
At the heart of it, self-hosting liberates your use cases from all the horribly opaque configuration, shadow prompting, etc. And local models are only getting better and more diverse every month.
>The parent comment wasn't suggesting that the inherent defects magically disappear
that is almost exactly what they said though..?
"Want it to go away, almost like magic? Local inference. [...] all of the common LLM defects will go away.
"[...]"
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edit: I suppose I have to spell this out.
"[...]" = "When its under your control, and [you're] no longer being forced to hold it wrong," ≈ "liberates your use cases from all the horribly opaque configuration, shadow prompting, etc."
and
"Almost like magic" is cliché hyperbole. It also means "not magic" in the same way that "almost like a dog" means "not a dog." It was immediately followed by the explicit clarification that was surgically omitted above, in absolute and conscious bad faith.
Hence, "[...]"
i omitted it because it doesnt change my point at all and it makes the quoted text smaller. not because of "absolute and conscious bad faith".
people can just read the original from the comment. its not like im quoting from a different website and trying to hide something. look 2 comments above mine and it is right there in full. anyone reading my comment would have seen the original comment already...
i have no idea why you took such offense to my comment, but you're reading way too much into it.
> This is a bit of a strawman. The parent comment wasn't suggesting that the inherent defects magically disappear
The parent comment literally said that the common LLM defects would go away.
Direct quote:
> all of the common LLM defects will go away
I get your reading. My interpretation is that they’re claiming enshittification and that the local models don’t have that.
It’s an understandable view, but I’d be astonished by any local model processing very long context better than any frontier model (and now many racks are we talking).
> Want it to go away, almost like magic?
True, almost like magic and magic are not the same thing, but I'd hesitate to call this a strawman.