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gmarkwa··on Ultra Fast LLM's Are Interesting (Mercury 2.5 Preview Release)
I see almost no discussion about the use cases for extremely fast diffusion models like Mercury which can apparently reach 1,000+ tps throughput, at an intelligence level around 32 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (according to Inception's webpage). Obviously this is a dumb model, but that level intelligence is close to Luna at Low effort level, which is good enough for basic tasks. I think these fast models open up a world of possibilities, especially as they get faster. I imagine workflows where, instead of taking time to write a prompt, I can rapidly iterate on the output by clicking through options. I'm wondering if anybody else is thinking about these possibilities?
gmarkwa··on Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?
Yeah maybe I'm conflating an "agent with tools" with a chat feature. Just because I'm using an agent with tools doesn't mean I need to chat with it, I could just click a button and have it do things, in the same way that I click a button and a driver with tools goes and gets my food.
gmarkwa··on Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?
Could you give me an example? Like a real example of an LLM based application with no chat? Now that I think of it something like Tavily comes to mind as an example.
gmarkwa··on Ask HN: What technique do you use to make Claude Code deterministic?
I mean they can be deterministic, thinking machines lab made deterministic LLM's: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in....

Although obviously I'd rather they stay non-deterministic