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Do You Actually Need an LLM?

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I spent a weekend running two small language models against three jobs I would normally hand to a language model without thinking about it. For one of those jobs I also wrote a regular expression, as a control. The regex won. Thirty test cases out of thirty, in zero milliseconds, from a pattern tha…

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    Do You Actually Need an LLM?

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