Zero-shot classification is cool again, and vboykis is happy the market noticed
vboykis · x · 2026-09-21
Quoting a tweet that quips "classification is cool again — the zero-shot kind," vboykis responds that this is a good thing: LLMs and their enormous size and generality were never going to be the answer to everything, and she's glad the market is showing it.
The substance is a practitioner's read on an industry trend: purpose-built, smaller zero-shot approaches regaining ground on tasks like classification, seen by some as a healthy correction to general-purpose model mania.
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