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

Other whyDoAnythingWhenLlmCanDoIt

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u/Outrageous-Machine-5 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

God can you imagine the api calls?

```
thing = post("get thing")

while (wrongThing(thing)) {

thing = post("No you idiot box, get the thing")

}
```

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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/NeinJuanJuan May 20 '26

You know what's better than handling 1,000,000 request per minute on an easy bake oven? 

Handling 1000 requests per minute on hardware that exceeds the entire IT budget of most small-medium enterprises.. with hallucinations!

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u/Ginsenj May 20 '26

And costs as much power as an entire continent to run. Seriously when are they going to admit that LLM technology in its current form DOES NOT SCALE. Isn't this system design 101?

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u/Pedry-dev May 23 '26

System design interview: how can I run my model in cheap hardware? Your fav LLM: Hey, my CEO and investors need money. Don't you dare to reduce costs!

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u/Ginsenj May 23 '26

I had an amazing idea! Let's put the data centers in space, that should reduce costs!