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Friday Fun Thread for March 14, 2025

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Now you need to wade through a lot of stuff if you want an experience better than the standard GPT web UI.

Are you.. high? It takes like 5 minutes and one tutorial to get access to almost completely unfiltered Deepseek through openrouter.ai. You can hook that up to an interface of arbitrary complexity and knock yourself out. The tokens are very generous, took me like 6 hours to exhaust them for 24h.

https://old.reddit.com/r/JanitorAI_Official/comments/1ikn1d7/heres_how_to_use_proxies_deepseek_claude_and/

And you don't have to pay a cent, although the newer deepseek might be rate-limited during high demand times, such as weekend.

This is exactly my point. When GPT3.5 first came out, all you needed was some trivial skill with prompt engineering and imagination to get obviously superior results. No extra software needed.

Now you have to:

  • Understand the difference between AI served via UI and API
  • Know what front ends exist and how to use install + use them
  • Connect the one to the other

Already this is more than the average person can handle, and you’re mostly just replicating the UI but it’s more complicated.

If you actually want more functionality then you need to look into character cards, RAG, function calling etc.

Not only is this now a non-trivial amount of work even for the technical, but you’re not getting any return for it until later. It doesn’t seem that way to you because you already understand how everything works, but already starting LLMs from scratch has become limited to technical people who enjoy making things work for its own sake.

Imagine twenty more years and you see how we got to where we are with video games and cars.