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john_strinlaiyesterday at 7:25 PM1 replyview on HN

>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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pessimizeryesterday at 9:29 PM

"[...]"

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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, "[...]"

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