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jeanetteshermantoday at 3:42 PM3 repliesview on HN

Using LLMs for everything is going to be seen as a big fad in a few years. First we try them for everything, then we find what use cases actually make sense, then we scale back. Woe betide our 401(k)s when it happens, though.


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computablytoday at 5:13 PM

> Woe betide our 401(k)s when it happens, though.

The stock market crashes once in a while. Shit happens. The long-term outlook is unlikely to change nearly as much, unless you think there will be systemic macroeconomic changes.

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drBonkerstoday at 4:03 PM

This is a concise statement of what I've tried to articulate by analogizing it to railroad infra buildout.

What applications do you think make the most sense so far?

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simianwordstoday at 4:09 PM

The paper did not compare against LLMs though.