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I am writing this, because I believe others might resonate with my experience. As a developer I have been looking over the progress of AI and LLMs over the past few years. I kept reading about how their train models etc with one eye and with the other eye how companies are using AI to enable X and built Y. I actually thought something spectural was done by the "AI Companies" that they all use custom models, or they train them, or they do even advanced machine learning etc. Then yesterday I visited a meetup hosted by Wolt and Doctolib on AI. The agenda was already poor "Wolt Agentic Shopping" and "Adversarial Review Loops" but I thought maybe I will learn something. I learned that even in these big companies they just pay Claude for Sonnet api tokens and are "experimenting" with using smaller models like Haiku. They also use Gemini or OpenApi. Especially with Wolt, in which they are essentially making a chatbot that you tell it what grocieries you want and it adds them to your cart, they could experiment with their own model. You could say that this will be an optimization later on, but still, the amount of orchestration added around the NLP-As-A-Service (because thats what they use it as) is gigantic and I asked them, to what extent do they use it? The answer was that they actually do employe "programmatic" practices, which meant they write normal code. For example in order to make sure no sensitive information is passed from chat to the LLM they literally use regex patterns to find ibans etc. I could go on about how many other things they do that leaves the AI doing mainly "yes they want to add rice, how do I curl rice to our api", but this is essentially it. No magic, no further smartness, not to mention a feature that you could achieve maybe 90% with elasticsearch. In the end I did not know that I am doing AI in my project as well. I got a small server that sits at home, with a model, a big prompt and a small api layer on top that receives a request, asks the llm and returns a json. No I dont run it behind a security harness, or have regex checking for sensitive data. If you are thinking that big companies are doing anything remotely interesting or amazing with AI. They are not, they just call claude.   submitted by   /u/Aviation2025 [link]   [comments]

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