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Assuming we didn’t need to train it ever again, it wouldn’t. But we don’t have that, so…
> I know multiple startups that use LLMs as their core bread-and-butter intelligence platform instead of tuned but traditional NLP models
Okay? Did that system write itself entirely? Did it replace the programmers that actually made it?
If so, they should pivot into a Devin competitor.
> Most people I know in NLP-adjacent fields have converged around LLMs being good for most (but obviously not all) problems.
Yeah LLMs are quite good at comming NLP tasks, but AFAIK are not SOTA at any specific task.
Either way, LLMs obviously don’t kill the need for the NLP field.
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Assuming we didn’t need to train it ever again, it wouldn’t. But we don’t have that, so…
> I know multiple startups that use LLMs as their core bread-and-butter intelligence platform instead of tuned but traditional NLP models
Okay? Did that system write itself entirely? Did it replace the programmers that actually made it?
If so, they should pivot into a Devin competitor.
> Most people I know in NLP-adjacent fields have converged around LLMs being good for most (but obviously not all) problems.
Yeah LLMs are quite good at comming NLP tasks, but AFAIK are not SOTA at any specific task.
Either way, LLMs obviously don’t kill the need for the NLP field.