👇 “I still maintain that LLMs are really dumb and of limited use. it’s my opinion as a practitioner and professional that the hype being peddled by the AI corporations and self promoters (from X grifters right up to academia) are ill-founded at best and and downright dangerous at worst. i am yet to see any significant support for LLMs from practitioners with responsibility. the deeper they go the stronger their caution gets.” fj (@fjzeit) i’ve been using it in-depth for 2.5 years. i discovered the same approach that Karpathy calls “LLM Wiki” over 18 months ago (as have many others). i’ve built a hardware simulator, two operating systems, an embedded systems harness, an ai coding harness, a coding IDE, two games, and a programming language. i still maintain that LLMs are really dumb and of limited use. it’s my opinion as a practitioner and professional that the hype being peddled by the AI corporations and self promoters (from X grifters right up to academia) are ill-founded at best and and downright dangerous at worst. i am yet to see any significant support for LLMs from practitioners with responsibility. the deeper they go the stronger their caution gets. i look forward to the day when the considered opinions of practitioners gets as much airtime as those with a vested interest in the technology. — https://nitter.net/fjzeit/status/2042814019405513141#m

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