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I'm really curious what you are doing with an LLM that can be solved 80% of the time with a 8b model.


It’s mostly how would you solve this programming problem, or reminders on syntax, scaffolding a configuration file etc.

Often it’s a form of rubber duck programming, with a smarter rubber duck.


All of this can be solved with a 3-20MB PDF file, a 10kb snippet/template file, and a whiteboard.


Don’t forget the duct tape


"Dropbox will never work, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account and mounting it locally with curlftpfs"




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