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I don't know where all you people work that your employer would prefer a random git repo (that has no support and no guarantee of updates) over a solution from

I don't know where all you people work that your employer would prefer a random git repo (that has no support and no guarantee of updates) over a solution from Microsoft. (Alternatively: that you have so much free time that you'd prefer to fiddle with your own validation code instead of writing your actual app) Open source solutions are great (which this still is, btw), but having a first-party solution is also a good thing.

BoorishBears 3y ago
I don't know which employer is hiring the people who make logical leaps like this but I thank them for their sacrifice. At the end of the day the repo I linked is grokkable with about 10 minutes of effort, and has simple demonstrable usefulness by letting you swap out the LLM you're calling. Both are experimental open source libraries in an experimental space.
msp26 3y ago
You're overrating the influence of the name Microsoft here. It's just some devs from the company working on this with no proper guarantee backing the project. I've been through this whole song and dance already with Microsoft's Guidance (another LLM project) and could not justify using it further in production at work. We built some tools and wrappers ourselves and it wasn't even that difficult. These libraries are often more trouble than they're worth.
- sambroner 3y ago
  I’m pretty sure Anders, Steve Lucco, and Daniel Rosenwasser worked on this. So inventors + current lead PM of typescript. Should lend some credibility to the project.
  - verdverm 3y ago
    Not really, better to leave the AI stuff to the AI people rather than PL people. When you don't, you get gimmick libraries like this rather than a solution that fits into the ecosystem These folks have no pedigree when it comes to LLMs or AI, so no it does not lend credibility
waffletower 3y ago
Many companies expressly avoid Microsoft products, particularly given its well exposed history of embrace, extend, extinguish.
ploppyploppy 3y ago
Look at Guidance - that's being ignored by Microsoft yet it's an official repo

BoorishBears 3y ago

I don't know which employer is hiring the people who make logical leaps like this but I thank them for their sacrifice. At the end of the day the repo I linked is grokkable with about 10 minutes of effort, and has simple demonstrable usefulness by letting you swap out the LLM you're calling. Both are experimental open source libraries in an experimental space.

msp26 3y ago

You're overrating the influence of the name Microsoft here. It's just some devs from the company working on this with no proper guarantee backing the project. I've been through this whole song and dance already with Microsoft's Guidance (another LLM project) and could not justify using it further in production at work. We built some tools and wrappers ourselves and it wasn't even that difficult. These libraries are often more trouble than they're worth.

sambroner 3y ago
I’m pretty sure Anders, Steve Lucco, and Daniel Rosenwasser worked on this. So inventors + current lead PM of typescript. Should lend some credibility to the project.
- verdverm 3y ago
  Not really, better to leave the AI stuff to the AI people rather than PL people. When you don't, you get gimmick libraries like this rather than a solution that fits into the ecosystem These folks have no pedigree when it comes to LLMs or AI, so no it does not lend credibility

waffletower 3y ago

Many companies expressly avoid Microsoft products, particularly given its well exposed history of embrace, extend, extinguish.

ploppyploppy 3y ago

Look at Guidance - that's being ignored by Microsoft yet it's an official repo