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In this context Musk is right and has the power to bring change. He will lose a lot of that power under a Harris presidency that has advertised it plans to continue the crusade against freedom of speech.
This is happening on a Windows 10 Dell, with 32gb of RAM, an i5, and an Nvidia 1050 GeForce with 4gb of vram.
I'm also able to decently run local LLMs because of llama.cpp and other libraries that can share models been ram and vram. There are other tools that can help with this as well including Ollama.
I suggest subscribing to r/localLLAMA. I also suggest using Bing Copilot in Edge with allowed access to the page you're viewing. I often use it to find new GitHub libraries and to give me first steps to be able to start using a new framework.
I find LLMs useful for:
- Building bridges from familiar concepts to new ones.
- Checking my analysis and implementation for mistakes and gaps. This includes detecting subtle logic errors with static analysis.
- Condensing lengthy descriptions and complex conversations.
- Creating diagrams from verbal descriptions of flows.
- Finding design patterns to support my design, along with the basic structure that fits the chosen pattern.
- Writing unit tests and improving code coverage.
- Analyzing the credibility of information sources such as news stories and scientific studies.
- Generating original ideas and solutions to problems I may not have encountered before.
- Many more edge cases that help me turn an idea into a concrete concept in rapid time.
I have also used LLMs to entirely generate new tools and workflows, using languages I had barely touched before. This improved my knowledge of those languages and sped up my learning through practical examples.
Just as the printing press made calligraphy obsolete, LLMs will eventually make coding obsolete. Coding will be replaced by pseudo code and narrative that is independent of any framework or platform.
This does not mean that design and development will become obsolete, it will just become faster, without being hindered by the unnecessary barrier of coding.
Don't dismiss the value of this tool just because some marketers and regulators are using hype and fear to make money. LLMs can enhance your existing skill and make you more productive. They are not a crutch, they are a third leg.
> Papers that cannot be replicated are cited 153 times more because their findings are interesting, according to a new UC San Diego study
> In psychology, only 39 percent of the 100 experiments successfully replicated.