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I think watching the development of driverless cars in the last 15 years has taught a lot of people to be skeptical of 95% solutions. Sometimes you really need
by reso 4y ago
I think watching the development of driverless cars in the last 15 years has taught a lot of people to be skeptical of 95% solutions. Sometimes you really need that 100% or the solution is practically useless.
- Loeffelmann 4y agoI mean this is clearly not the case with LLM. They create value today even though they are not AGI yet.
- reso 4y agoLLMs create value but it's not yet clear how much.
- sharemywin 4y agoI guess the million dollar question is what are the problems where a 95% solution works.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoProbably a lot of them, honestly. The 95% only problem is an issue for cars cuz that last 5% means you die horribly in a head-on collision, or maybe only get a mild concussion but are stuck in a ditch. But if I can get 95% of my router configs done, 95% of my documentation written, and 95% of a website whipped up I can hand that off to a Sr Engineer/Admin and have them take care of the last bits. As long as the hours, phone number, and location are good a website just needs to be "directionally accurate" and otherwise fairly basic.
- ben_w 4y agoMaking websites for a small business such as restaurants and hairdressers, where neither the owners nor the clients have either heard of nor care about "reactive design", and don't want any database more complex than an excel spreadsheet even if you do try to explain why that's a horrifyingly bad use of the wrong tool.
- kenjackson 4y agoOr people need to learn that different problems have different risk profiles. 95% on if I need more eggs is different than driving a 60 MPH vehicle.