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Linus Lee: belief

1 Jun 2023 Latent Space Building the AI × UX Scenius — with Linus Lee of Notion AI

“I think in practice there are a couple of trends that make that an issue. So for things like generating summaries, a summary is only going to be so many tokens long.”

— Linus Lee

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Speaker
Linus Lee
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
1 Jun 2023
Publisher
Latent Space

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…And then one more follow-up on, you mentioned some of your prompts are thousands of tokens. That takes away from my budget as a user. Isn't that a trade-off that's a concern? So there's a limited context window, right? Some of that is taken by you as the app designer, product designer, deciding what system prompt to provide. And then the remainder is what I as a user can give you to actually summarize as my content. In theory. I think in practice there are a couple of trends that make that an issue. So for things like generating summaries, a summary is only going to be so many tokens long. If our prompts are generating you 3,000 token summaries, the prompt is not doing its job anyway. Yeah, but the source doc is.…

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