Local AI enthusiast: hobbyists are 'unbelievably detached' from what most users want
gnukeith · x · 2026-10-25
gnukeith reflects that most people just want models to work out of the box — not hours of explaining how they think and work. He notes Sam Altman makes the same point around the 27-minute mark of a recent interview, and admits local-AI enthusiasts are 'unbelievably detached from reality'. Replies add that quick PoCs vs production code demand very different prompting, and companies care even less about such tuning.
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