It's a base model. It hasn't been instruction tuned to "solve problems" necessarily. All it can do is attempt to complete text given some starting text.
Say I want to auto-bookmark a bunch of tabs and need a summary of each one. Using the title is a mechanical solution, but a nice prompt and a small model can summarize the title and contents into something much more useful.
A whole lot of machine learning practitioners use X. Makes it difficult to avoid if you're interested in the news. It's definitely a network effect issue.
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It's a good idea in concept but tons of popular libraries use async which makes it difficult to avoid. Want to do anything with a web server or sending requests, most likely async for popular libraries.
Yeah, the nom asynch nats client got deprecated for instance. It really is a shame, because very few projects will ever scale large enough to need asynch, and apart from things like this, there are costs in portability and supply chain attack surface area when you bring in tokio.
I agree, gemini pro is a great model for coding if you don't need to do agentic work. I've found that it's a lot less "wordy" when editing, debugging, reviewing, etc. It gets to the point whereas other models can provide long useless explanations. It's also very smart and great with long context.
Why not toggle light and dark mode and set things to follow the system? That works great for me in macOS, these days things that doesn’t support that are rare. I actually can’t recall the last app (that _i_ use) that wasn’t a website that doesn’t support light vs dark mode and follow system settings.
I've found the opposite, I suppose. I've found I'm more likely to run across apps or sites that don't support dark mode than sites that are natively dark that invert makes worse (because they turn light).
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