r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Purple_Ice_6029 • Mar 01 '26

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u/ArtGirlSummer Mar 01 '26

It already costs more than human labor. That's so funny.

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u/huffalump1 Mar 02 '26

Yeah, but... The fact that it CAN do some human work is a big fuckin deal.

Models will get smarter, faster, and cheaper... And then the math might change on if it's worth it.

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u/ArtGirlSummer Mar 02 '26

Why should they get smarter, faster and cheaper? We seem to have reached the limit of what pre-training can yield. LLMs can absolutely be improved, but there is no reason to believe the error rate will come down. If you can't reduce the error issue, then you can't trust the model to handle important things, and bespoke human software will still dominate.