Comparing your method to trillion-param LLMs is an unfair baseline

mariotelfig · x · 2026-09-11

Mario Teguh Sihalath argues that comparing against strong LLM baselines today is like comparing to humans 5-10 years ago — unfair, since a top LLM has a trillion parameters, costs millions, and is general-purpose. Often you seek a clever, efficient solution to a specific problem, even if it underperforms an LLM.

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