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If all this does is give you the data from a contact API, why not just let the users directly interact with the API? The LLM is just extra bloat in this case.
by tovej 10mo ago
If all this does is give you the data from a contact API, why not just let the users directly interact with the API? The LLM is just extra bloat in this case.
Surely a fuzzy search by name or some other field is a much better UI for this.
- bitmasher9 10mo agoBy interact directly with the API, are you having the user to make curl calls to your backend? We build front ends for the API to make our applications easier to use. This is just another type of front end.
- tovej 10mo agoNo, obviously not. I mean having a regular web frontend with a fuzzy search form.
- simonw 10mo agoThat's effectively what they built. The LLM is an implementation detail for how they got a version of fuzzy search to work.
- tovej 10mo agoDid you read my post? The AI is just expensive extra component that complicates the flow. Why would I want a chat interface for something that should give me a structured response in a clean table UI with customizable columns.