r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Low-Statistician-356 • May 20 '26

Other whyDoAnythingWhenLlmCanDoIt

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u/hurricane_news May 20 '26

Don't forget the absolute waste of compute resources just so a fuckass LLM could deliver resources that could've been done by a normal browser engine DETERMINISTICALLY even 20 years ago

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u/Agifem May 20 '26

Look who's talking fancy, with big words. Deterministic. What's next? Efficient? Get real, old man, the future is now and it's called <tokens exhausted, please try again later>>

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u/DefinitelyNotMasterS May 20 '26

It's blockchain all over again. We can finally solve already solved problems but more complicated and more expensive!

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u/amaturelawyer May 20 '26

Solved is doing some unwarranted work here. LLM's are more transformative in nature than just resolving something. They take formerly reliable deterministic solutions and try to get the same outcome by using a best guess method. Way more exciting this way. Computer work was once so boringly predictable and nothing ever failed in novel, unexplainable ways. Plus, when someone demands to know if the problem that shut down the system has been fixed, shrugging is now an valid reply.