I Was Asked to Add a Simple Classifier to a Website. Then I Saw the 250 MB Download.
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Machine Learning
Generative AI
A client asked me for a simple thing. Not ChatGPT. Not an agent. Not a multimodal assistant that can explain invoices, generate React components, and write poetry in three languages. Just a small classifier embedded into a website. The job sounded boring in the best possible way: take some text, classify it, return a result, keep it fast. So I started looking at the usual solutions.