Zero-shot classification is here, yet people won't even fit a threshold on a dev set
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-11-05
The author notes LLMs now enable zero-shot classification across virtually all tasks, eliminating the need for fine-tuning. Yet people are too lazy to fit a simple threshold on a dev set — leaving significant performance gains on the table for a trivially cheap step.
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