How many views does "Needle 3: You Don't Need an LLM for Function Calling" have?

As of Sep 18, 2026 · 14 days ago, it has reached 99.6K views.

How is "Needle 3: You Don't Need an LLM for Function Calling" performing versus Prompt Engineering's normal?

About 8.5x — it has 99.6K views versus the roughly 11.8K Prompt Engineering typically draws at the same age, measured against the channel's own 90-day baseline.

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Needle 3: You Don't Need an LLM for Function Calling

Name: Needle 3: You Don't Need an LLM for Function Calling
Uploaded: 2026-09-18T13:00:19+00:00
Duration: 13 min 30 s
Channel: Prompt Engineering
Description: Needle 3: A 35MB parameter model that runs function calling on a CPU in 66 milliseconds, with no GPU and no JSON parser. In this video I walk through Cactus Needle 3, run a live home automation demo, break down the simple attention network architecture, and show you a Colab notebook you can run yourself. I also cover…

Prompt Engineering's upload has reached 99.6K views — about 8.5× the ≈11.8K this channel typically draws at the same age.

Key facts

•8.5x Prompt Engineering's own 90-day median — this channel normally draws about 11.8K views at the same age.
•99.6K views so far, published 14 days ago.
•Category: Science & Technology · Language: en · Quality: HD
•"Breakout" is measured against this exact channel's trailing 90-day median at matching video age — not a generic niche average.

Updated 2026-09-18 19:10 UTC

Video thumbnail: Needle 3: You Don't Need an LLM for Function Calling — Watch on YouTube ↗ · Prompt Engineering · 247K subscribers

View trajectory

Views this upload has gathered since it published, last measured about 168h in — from our own tracking.

Published Sep 18, 2026 · 14 days ago. How breakouts are measured →

From the creator

Needle 3: A 35MB parameter model that runs function calling on a CPU in 66 milliseconds, with no GPU and no JSON parser. In this video I walk through Cactus Needle 3, run a live home automation demo, break down the simple attention network architecture, and show you a Colab notebook you can run yourself. I also cover…

Category: Science & Technology · Language: en · Quality: HD

Topics: Technology

Tags: prompt engineering, Prompt Engineer, LLMs, AI, artificial Intelligence, Llama, GPT-4, fine-tuning LLMs

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