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What to do with GenAI tags?

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We are getting a lot of GenAI-related tags: llm, gpt, gpt-3 and so on.

None which have anything to do with programming, nor are they programming tools. These tags are IMO about the end goal of an application, so they are about as on-topic as ponies, if someone happens to be writing a pony-feeding application.

If any of these had a programmer API then that would be different, but a generic term like "large language model" does not have an API.

What to do with all these tags?

We also have "company tags" - there is consensus that they shouldn't be used (Getting rid of "company tags" early on). So tags like "open-ai" should probably be renamed "open-ai-api".

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Programming tools? (2 comments)
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None which have anything to do with programming

I disagree, e.g.:

  • a program may be about building an LLM.
  • a program may call an LLM.
  • a program could be partly be done with an LLM.

so the tags are relevant in my opinion.

tags like "open-ai" should probably be renamed "open-ai-api

Agreed, much clearer (openai-api is better, and could be other tags such as openai-lib)

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Tags should describe languages/tools/programming features
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"a program may be about building an LLM" Yeah or about building a pony feeding automation project, so then by that rationale we need a pony-feeding tag too :) Tags should not be used to describe what the purpose of the end application is.

"a program may call an LLM" Sure and if there's a programmer API then questions about that would be on-topic. But then we should have a tag like the mentioned openai-api and not use general tags like "llm".

"a program could be partly be done with an LLM" If it was done by an AI explicitly designed for such, ie a programmer tool, then that might be on topic. If it was done by asking a generic chat bot, then that's not on-topic any more than asking someone to debug the code that resulted from my cat walking across the keyboard. The cat created something resembling source code but that doesn't make cats programmer tools.