And what if you let a human expert fact-check the output of an LLM? Provided you're transparent about the output (and its preceding prompt(s)) ?
Because I'd much rather ask an LLM about a topic I don't know much about and let a human expert verify its contents than waste the time of a human expert in explaining the concept to me.
Once it's verified, I add it to my own documentation library so that I can refer to it later on.
> a flakey feature for new users was (correctly) considered worse than not having a feature at all.
Would you say that implementing a flakey feature in the first place was a bad idea? I'd think that once users get dependant on a certain feature (no matter how lacking in its usefulness), it's going to be tougher for them taking it away than not shipping it in the first place.
> On one server (matrix.org) the room directory is currently locked down to stop it filling up with spam
Yes, that's what I was initially talking about since I'm (mostly) on the matrix.org homeserver. I'm glad this is a temporary situation.
Oh I wasn't aware of this. This is excellent news!
I hope it gets lots of attention in the (near) future. I'm guessing that the enshittification of Discord is about 2 to 3 years away at this point, so I believe having a proper alternative would do wonders for the open ecosystem.
> To improve the UX with clients, we had to improve the protocol.
While I believe this to be the best way forward, was it also the fastest way to acquire a userbase? If we look at Bluesky for instance, they pretty much did the reverse of what Matrix.org did, and (I think) thus was in a position to garner hefty growth as a result.
While that would perhaps be the best solution in the long run, wouldn't you agree that gains in userbase necessary for growth (or at least sustainability) are predicated upon how good the UX is _currently_ ?
> Matrix isn’t perfect but it has only improved in the 5 years I’ve been using it.
I'd very much like to disagree.
From the top of my head, in the past few years of using Element Web:
- Notification center is now gone.
- Room search is now only limited to official Matrix rooms.
- At peak it consumes ~2.2 GB of RAM.
- UI feels more sluggish by the day.
- Loading it now takes ~10 minutes.
- Using it as an IRC bouncer (to Libera) is now gone, which was what initially attracted me in the first place.
And I don't even use the voice / call functionality of Element Web.
I somewhat understand the reasoning behind the decisions, but I feel like they should have improved the UX first before working on the protocol itself.
> LLMs are not the first tech product that have been restricted by export controls.