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Do You Actually Need an LLM?

Community description: I spent a weekend running two small language models against three jobs I would normally hand to a...

Dev.to | Oct 13, 2026 | Ken W Alger

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Not the best small model. bottom one is not a model at all. The 1. 5B model answered all eight single-passage questions correctly. The 1. 5B model abstained on two and fabricated two.

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