We used to have working spelling and grammar checkers. Why does everybody in tech pretend you need a whole-ass LLM to check for typos?
@baldur there are so many things people use LLMs for that it would make sense to build tools for after the first few usages (maybe the LLM could be used to code the tool). Especially since ordinary tools use energe so much more efficiently.
@64kb That was literally one of the suggestions I made three years ago. Basically, even if you do disagree with the issues with LLMs that people are pointing out, the cost alone means it makes economic sense to switch to specialised, low-cost models for the specific use cases you discover, because not only are they cheaper, they tend to be more effective.
@baldur that's possible too. What I really meant was get the LLM to code a traditional tool and then use that subsequently.