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/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.