Dev Rants: Normal Users Stuck With Braindead Free LLMs, Unaware of Frontier Capabilities
banteg · x · 2026-08-01
The author observes that normal users typically just rotate between various free LLM offerings. They are served instant, mini, braindead, quantized, toolless models that fall several generations behind the frontier. Consequently, if you tell them about actual frontier capabilities, you'd be perceived as some shaman possessing unthinkable secret knowledge.
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