When the only tool you have is an LLM …
everything looks like a linguistic pattern problem…
Seems like people are jumping to LLMs to solve any task now, when simple ML models or linear regression just do the job at a fraction of the power cost and better precision.
Frédéric Jacobs
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2025-09-05 18:10:04 UTC
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