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Hybrid Computing
The rule that keeps AI systems from embarrassing you.
How it works
- 1LLMs are a new kind of computing with roughly the inverse strengths of CPU computing.
- 2A CPU does long division in nanoseconds, deterministically, correctly. An LLM will burn enormous compute to approximate an answer a calculator nails.
- 3The good ones now recognize this and invoke a tool instead.
- 4Rob's hard rule: never let an LLM generate a number for you. Infuse the two kinds of computing instead of choosing between them.
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