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Alistair Pullen: evaluation

22 Aug 2024 Latent Space Is finetuning GPT4o worth it? — with Alistair Pullen, Cosine (Genie)

“So we could see if we were, you know, actually helping ourselves or not. And initially, one of the biggest performance gains that we saw when we were work, when we did work on the RAG a bit was giving it the ability to use the LSP to like go to definition and really try to get it to emulate how we do that, because I'm sure when you go into an editor with that, where like the LSP is not working or whatever, you suddenly feel really like disarmed and naked.”

— Alistair Pullen

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Alistair Pullen
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evaluation
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22 Aug 2024
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Latent Space

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…you can source it from Cbench, actually. Yeah, you can do it, you can do it super easily. And that's how we got that figure out at the other end. Um, for us being able to see it against, um, our historic models were super useful. So we could see if we were, you know, actually helping ourselves or not. And initially, one of the biggest performance gains that we saw when we were work, when we did work on the RAG a bit was giving it the ability to use the LSP to like go to definition and really try to get it to emulate how we do that, because I'm sure when you go into an editor with that, where like the LSP is not working or whatever, you suddenly feel really like disarmed and naked. You're like, Oh my god, I didn't realize how much I actually used this to get about rather than just find stuff. So we really tried to get it to do that and that gave us a big jump in performance. So we went from like 54 percent up to like the 60s, but just by adding, focusing on that. One weird trick. Yes. I'll briefly comment here. So this is the standard approach I would say most, uh, code tooling startups are pursuing. The one company that's not doing this is magic. dev. So would you do things differently if you have a 10 million…

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