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Nobody gets your points. HN is like this far too often, take minor points and that's all the discussion is about. I'm doing what you're talking about 100%. I'v
by bsenftner 2y ago
Nobody gets your points. HN is like this far too often, take minor points and that's all the discussion is about.
I'm doing what you're talking about 100%. I've found that established and popular FOSS web software that has normal people users and their support forums, plural, for their normal users (as any popular software has) - this type of "established and non-sexy probably used for office work software" is fully known and understood by LLMs. It's very simple to put a support AI Agent inside the interface to that software, and because the LLM has both the user support forums and the source code itself in the training, that AI Agent can do things against the software's API and data structures by request - it knows them!
Yeah, "boring software" is no longer boring when it can be integrated with characters that know that software as good as the lead developer who wrote it and have the knowledge of a dozen PhDs too.
- markusw 2y agoIt's okay, sometimes the discussions turn interesting and I learn something. And a lot of people get to read my article, and I hope their lives are enriched in a small but meaningful way. I'm glad the approach works for you as well! :D It's fascinating to watch a statistical document completion model be able to do so much.
- bsenftner 2y ago40 years ago I took a 3 semesters of statistics summer seminar that lasted 8 weeks. It was 8am to 5pm of stats, 5 days a week, two chapters per day. The seminar started with 350 people and ended with 36. But we became stats gurus, it was crazy the on the fly verbal debates the class carried out. Ever since then, my career has had a foundational use of statistics. I'm actually somewhat surprised I did not see LLMs coming.