Every single one of these discussion, at some point, devolves to some version of
- <LLM Y> is by far the best. In my extensive usage it is consistently outperforms <LLM X> by at least 2x. The difference is night and day.
Then the immediate child reply:
- What!? You must be holding it wrong. The complete inverse is true for me.
I don't know what to make of this contradiction. We're all using the same 2 things right? How can opinions vary by such a large amount. It makes me not trust any opinion on any other subject (which admittedly is not a bad default state, but who has time to form their own opinions on everything).
- <LLM Y> is by far the best. In my extensive usage it is consistently outperforms <LLM X> by at least 2x. The difference is night and day.
Then the immediate child reply:
- What!? You must be holding it wrong. The complete inverse is true for me.
I don't know what to make of this contradiction. We're all using the same 2 things right? How can opinions vary by such a large amount. It makes me not trust any opinion on any other subject (which admittedly is not a bad default state, but who has time to form their own opinions on everything).