Showerthought: I spent a whole month trying to get a model to understand sarcasm in 2021.

Now I just feed it a few labeled examples and it gets the tone right about 80% of the time. The shift from building custom logic to using prompt engineering happened almost overnight. What specific task did you stop building from scratch because a foundation model just does it now?

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mark_lane422d ago

Tried to code a whole grammar checker from scratch. Now I just ask if a sentence sounds weird and it fixes it for me.

west.henry15d ago

Remember trying to write a custom sentiment analyzer for customer emails. Wasted weeks on edge cases for phrases like "cool story, bro." Now I just paste the email into a chat window and ask if it's sarcastic. The answer is usually right and I feel a bit silly about all that earlier work.

king.derek15d ago

Feel the same pain from overthinking simple tasks. We build these complex systems when a quick chat check does the job. Sometimes the easy answer is right in front of us.