We say "deploy the model" and "ship the model" as if it's software — but is it?
A .gguf or .safetensors file has no control flow, no executable instructions — it's inert without an inference engine. That makes it data, not code. Yet weights implicitly encode behavior the same way conditionals do, just in a non-linear way.
I feel the answer is "no" but I'm not sure that's the complete answer. I'm curious what others think.
We say "deploy the model" and "ship the model" as if it's software — but is it?
A .gguf or .safetensors file has no control flow, no executable instructions — it's inert without an inference engine. That makes it data, not code. Yet weights implicitly encode behavior the same way conditionals do, just in a non-linear way.
I feel the answer is "no" but I'm not sure that's the complete answer. I'm curious what others think.