Look, I enjoy local LLMs as much as anyone, but I think there is some motivated reasoning happening in this thread to try to make local LLMs sound like a utopia against those evil VCs.
Local LLMs suffer from the same problems.
- They have no other options
OR
- They have no idea what they're doing
Local models solve the first problem, and let you apply the appropriate tool by virtue of the control you have. The alternative does not.
In-context, your reply reads like you're asserting that anthropic's offerings give you all the same control as a local model, and that having this baseline of control over a computer program is "utopian". To me that sounds more like the second problem, and nothing can help you there.
No, I’m talking about the idea up thread that having control over more settings removes all LLM defects with local models.
I have all the control I want over the local models they run. No combination of settings is going to make them outperform Anthropic’s models.
> No combination of settings is going to make them outperform Anthropic’s models.
And even this is addressing something nobody was saying, and manages to come off as a marketing read.
It absolutely does not.