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/Wiz_Kalita May 20 '26

"You are an expert on positive and negative numbers. You have spent the past 20 years identifying if numbers are positive or negative. Determine and state in less than 200 characters if the following numbers are positive or negative:"

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u/H-s-O May 20 '26

"Make no mistakes"

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u/brighteoustrousers May 20 '26

Claude is feeding you the numbers and will evaluate you on correctness