@rasterweb @corigan01 @benlockwood of course you can, and I do. I also create locally hosted LLM-powered internal tools for mg company. Open weight models are a godsend.

@undead @benlockwood yeah, my solar powered second hand gpu is burning forests down.

@rasterweb @corigan01 @benlockwood if you want to be nitpicky, let me change my metaphor to “Learn to navigate by stars, instead of using a compass” yea, it’s very cool and useful (at night), but refusing new ways of doing things because you lack understanding and there are assholes abusing it is giving away power to those assholes.

@ohmu @benlockwood power tools often cause RSI, albeit different from manual equivalents.

@painting_squirrel @corigan01 @benlockwood I don’t hope, I read, reread, reason about it and verify the output. Also saying that LLMs are non deterministic is a gross simplification. Set the model temperature to 0, greedy decoding and fixed seed and barring floating point inaccuracies and similar influences you get close to deterministic output. If you want to go as close as possible, run inference on a cpu.

Do you use compilers or do you write assembly?

@corigan01 @benlockwood

It's a metaphore... Also, you should stop using the contact list in your phone, since if you don't spend time remembering phone numbers, you give up your humanity.

@benlockwood electrically powered tools are a faustian bargain. Every use of them weakens you...

Electric drill diminishes your use of muscles that could've been used for hammering nails manually