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I wasn't trying to understate OpenAI's contribution, far from it. I can hardly express my appreciation for their work. That doesn't mean that everything else i
by inductive_magic 3y ago
I wasn't trying to understate OpenAI's contribution, far from it. I can hardly express my appreciation for their work.
That doesn't mean that everything else in the stack is window dressing though - custom, domain specific wrangling with the different api endpoints, finding a satisfying prompt, temperature param etc. for specific tasks - the entire process of designing systems around an LLM-api has many intricacies to it, lots of which are completely uncharted territory.
I can assure you: very smart people are knees deep in this process, and they deserve the credit for their share of the value that is being created.
- whimsicalism 3y agoI am not convinced it won’t all be obviated with improvements in the foundation model. Seems to be carving out a very very temporary space for yourself.
- inductive_magic 3y agoRe: smart people avoiding wrapper work - sure! Not just because the result might be short lived, but also because there is a lot more prestige in building something from scratch rather than wrapping. However, the "very very temporary space" might as well lead to momentum and a moat in a subdomain, and anyone who met a sufficiently large number of smart people knows that lots of them are very pragmatic, don't chase prestige, and enjoy laying ground work for future iterations.