This article is missing an even more important point: you don't always need to start with an LLM, plain old coding still solves a lot of problems.

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skeeter2020 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's funny how when I talk to ML practitioners who have experience & work in the field they're the most pragmatic voices, like our staff developer on the ML team: "if you can solve the problem algorithmically you should definitely do that!"

	▲	dmezzetti a day ago \| parent [-]
		For full disclosure, I work on txtai one of the more popular AI frameworks out there. So this checks out :)

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riku_iki 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

but you can't build 5B startup in 10 months with plain old coding..

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nine_k 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Is coding the bottleneck there?

	▲	thimabi 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Without it being attached to the AI hype, it surely is. In the current tech landscape, there’s a tendency to stuff AI into everything, so anything that doesn’t include it ends up being left behind.

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dmezzetti 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There are plenty of AI companies solving interesting problems and possibly worth it. But most problems are more simple than that and that hasn't changed.

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imhoguy 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

you can build AI unicorn without AI even: builder.ai /s

	▲	gsky 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Some media outlets pushed that for clicks. According to an employee who worked there that they built some ai models and used AI.