> The AI ecosystem will continue to be Python-first, and that’s fine! The actual interaction with models is just HTTP requests with JSON payloads, though.
Wow, all this time I thought transformer neural networks required expertise and specialized hardware to design, train, build, and operate. Apparently all you need to do is make an HTTP request. We've been wasting our time! /s
If your idea of "building AI" is calling someone else's web service, you might want to consider scaling back those grandiose claims on your resume. You're building a basic app that makes API calls, stop fooling yourself.
I mean, AI is just matrix multiplication, amirite?
Pretty reductive argument honestly. AI services mean that a lot of AI operations are 'just HTTP requests' but it doesn't mean there isn't a huge amount of tooling that you need to work effectively with them.
AI tooling in this case being:
- Fine-tuning
- Eval test suites
- Observability based around AI interactions
Would you call Lovable a basic app that makes API calls? Or is it AI enough to justify the label?
perrygeo|1 year ago
Wow, all this time I thought transformer neural networks required expertise and specialized hardware to design, train, build, and operate. Apparently all you need to do is make an HTTP request. We've been wasting our time! /s
If your idea of "building AI" is calling someone else's web service, you might want to consider scaling back those grandiose claims on your resume. You're building a basic app that makes API calls, stop fooling yourself.
lawrjone|1 year ago
Pretty reductive argument honestly. AI services mean that a lot of AI operations are 'just HTTP requests' but it doesn't mean there isn't a huge amount of tooling that you need to work effectively with them.
AI tooling in this case being:
- Fine-tuning - Eval test suites - Observability based around AI interactions
Would you call Lovable a basic app that makes API calls? Or is it AI enough to justify the label?
Asking as they made a move from Python to Go just the other day for similar reasons as in this post: https://lovable.dev/blog/from-python-to-go