Thoughtful product building with LLMs - the stream
Developers should focus on the reasoning capabilities of LLMs rather than just their text generation, as text is often a liability rather than an asset.
The fact that they generate text is not the point. LLMs are cheap, infinitely scalable, predictably consistent black boxes to soft human-like reasoning. That's the headline! The text I/O mode is just the API to this reasoning genie.
The real alpha is not in generating text, but in using this new capability and wrapping it into jobs that have other shapes. Text generation in the best LLM products will be an implementation detail, as much as backend APIs are for current SaaS.