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... clearly I didn't realise I was replying to the author of the article, in which case I can see why your reply was a bit defensive. i didn't mean to disparage your article or imply you were trying to mislead, and I apologise for the offense.

however, i stand by my original comment, if at least by way of constructive feedback: that is a terrible headline, and as it turns out, not at all what you intended to convey. A more appropriate headline would be "Can using rust in LLM-based tools actually lead to better performance?". You might think the two are the same but they're not. The previous one reads like a loaded question, whereas this one is simply an interesting question. And getting the wording right in these things is important; the loaded version was off-putting enough that it caused at least one of your potential readers to eyeroll and write a comment about chatgpt detecting fallacies instead of reading the article :)

I will now read the article. Sounds like an interesting topic after all, thank you for posting :)


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tinco10/04/2024

No offense taken, just friendly discussion as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks for the feedback, I definitely agree it was a loaded question. I didn't expect the post to get the traction that it did. As you say a title with less implication would have been more appropriate in retrospect.