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I do seeing this becoming a trend more and more. A lot of open models are fairly strong and fine-tuning and other post-training techniques could easily make bespoke domain-specific inference considerably cheaper (in token usage and energy consumption) and allow for more data sovereignty.

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century by W. David Marx. A fascinating and approachable read.

I’m by no means an expert on this topic, but what about using predefined hash map of value to function call/closure unless that also yields branched programming underneath? Additionally, maybe you want to use macros of some kind to generate the “magic” function you’re looking for, where it constructs a single branchless statement up to N terms, whether it’s procedural macros in Rust or C macros.