I have written a ton of evaluations and run countless benchmarks and I'm not even close to convinced that we're at
> the point where LLMs are surpassing humans in any task limited in scope enough to be a “benchmark”
so much as we're over-fitting these bench marks (and in many cases fishing for a particular way of measuring the results that looks more impressive).
While it's great that the LLM community has so many benchmarks and cares about attempting to measure performance, these benchmarks are becoming an increasingly poor signal.
> This is a nerve-wracking time to be a knowledge worker for sure.
It might because I'm in this space, but I personally feel like this is the best time to working in tech. LLMs still are awful at things requiring true expertise while increasingly replacing the need for mediocre programmers and dilettantes. I'm increasingly seeing the quality of the technical people I'm working with going up. After years of being stuck in rooms with leetcode grinding TC chasers, it's very refreshing.
> the point where LLMs are surpassing humans in any task limited in scope enough to be a “benchmark”
so much as we're over-fitting these bench marks (and in many cases fishing for a particular way of measuring the results that looks more impressive).
While it's great that the LLM community has so many benchmarks and cares about attempting to measure performance, these benchmarks are becoming an increasingly poor signal.
> This is a nerve-wracking time to be a knowledge worker for sure.
It might because I'm in this space, but I personally feel like this is the best time to working in tech. LLMs still are awful at things requiring true expertise while increasingly replacing the need for mediocre programmers and dilettantes. I'm increasingly seeing the quality of the technical people I'm working with going up. After years of being stuck in rooms with leetcode grinding TC chasers, it's very refreshing.