An LLM with a knowledge cutoff must feel like waking up from a coma
_Stocko_ · x · 2026-08-19
A user quipped that an LLM with a knowledge cutoff must feel like waking from a coma — everything that happened after it "went to sleep" is unknown to it, leaving users to fill in the gaps or rely on retrieval. The apt metaphor nails the limitation of static training data and why RAG and real-time retrieval keep getting pushed.
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