Comment by oblio
1 day ago
https://nitter.xitter.cc/augeeidos/status/210940046382122618...
This reply summarizes the problem from a different angle.
1 day ago
https://nitter.xitter.cc/augeeidos/status/210940046382122618...
This reply summarizes the problem from a different angle.
As someone who is building one of these referred to systems in a major vertical in the Fortune 500, these LLMs are very much being used to eat major legacy systems and processes. There are still plenty of obstacles to overcome but the number of AI governance and steering groups that I have been apart of are indicative of what's happening in a major industry.
> As someone who is building one of these referred to systems in a major vertical in the Fortune 500, these LLMs are very much being used to eat major legacy systems and processes
> Senior Director of Product in Insurance Tech
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Those LLMs are not being wielded by 2 tech bros in a garage replacing the 100 000 person company.
Those LLMs are being adopted by the huge enterprise itself and being surrounded from all sides by a very complex procedural harness (aka regular programming) that stops the LLM from doing dumb stuff.
This is an interesting perspective.
Nevertheless, my counterpoint to
> If they actually had access to systems that could do "years of top professional work" across software, cyber, science, and math, they would not mostly be leaving to start more chatbot companies, agent frameworks, eval tools, and "AI for workflow" startups.
> They would be starting normal companies to disrupt the global economies of the world.
> Insurance companies. CAD companies. Compliance companies. Security auditing firms. Logistics software. Tax automation. ERP replacements. Drug discovery tooling. Industrial design. Legal ops. Accounting systems. Boring vertical SaaS with insane output per employee.
is:
Many people who work in such industries already know an insane amount of inefficiencies. Unluckily, they are not in positions and have no political power (with respect to organizational policy) in the company that they are capable of changing the situation.
Additionally, many of these sectors are heavily regulated, so it is very hard to make a difference in this sector as a startup founder, and even if there is an entrpreneur who founds a company to change the status quo, an insane amount of work in the company will be handling the big amount of red tape.