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datsci_est_2015today at 1:41 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes, the LLM knows the definitions of the words in my domain, that’s clear and obvious.

No, the LLM doesn’t know our product strategy and why certain things matter and certain things don’t. That’s very much what I get paid to do. There’s not even agreement within our team about what path we should take through the domain-product space, there’s no chance in hell that the LLM will choose a profitable random walk through that domain-product space.

If it were able to do that, then AGI would have already been achieved and we’re only compute power away from OpenAI or Anthropic making the marginal utility of any piece of code $0.


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altcognitotoday at 2:31 PM

Yeah, it's not just over-engineering, it is just that generic systems that look like everything else usually don't solve a business problem, but I think I would be less dismissive of its world model in general.

LLMs are not a "random walk", they take in information and they explore the space according to the way they've been instructed.