Many LLM users never touched classic classifiers — old-school ML hygiene is fading
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-10-24
In a thread about how few people scrutinize benchmark cuts, a practitioner observes that many people using LLMs have never used regular classifiers, so practices once considered standard no longer get applied — which is why he keeps sharing "old man advice" in the community.
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