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alex_duf | on: A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
There's a significant engineering cost to having a custom classifier.

An off-the-shelf API has way less friction, if the results are good enough why bother?

dehrmann | parent
For this particular case, it's probably worth it because a dermatologist visit is $200. If I were the NHS or Kaiser, I'd partner with other integrated insurance and service providers to collect as much training data as possible and fund classifier development.
sungam | root | parent
This is the plan!