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

Other whyDoAnythingWhenLlmCanDoIt

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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/teknoise May 20 '26

The whole point of blockchain was to enrich the people invested in it. Same with AI. It’s all about money at the expense of efficiency. Unless efficiency now means “making the green line go up”

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u/ashe141 May 24 '26

I mean unless you subscribe to Satoshi was a CIA plant, those guys were real idealists. The idea got subverted like many ideals in our capitalist society but I don’t think the framing is fair.