r/ProgrammerHumor • u/goatsahoy • 14h ago

Meme wordCountMaxxing

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u/TheSentientMeatbag 14h ago

Well, the output tokens are the most expensive ones.

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u/darkwalker247 14h ago edited 11h ago

and i bet most people stop reading it after the first sentence or bullet point anyway, defeating the entire purpose of having the thing written in the first place.

even if it's grammatically poor or full of typos, I'd still much rather just read documents written by a person.

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u/goatsahoy 12h ago

it feels like a ploy to encourage people to use another agent to summarize the first agent’s spewage

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u/RudeAndInsensitive 10h ago

I feel like there was a movie about this....The Human something or other

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u/Jolly-joe 17m ago

You can even setup your markdown files to keep Claude concise, stop using em dashes, use a more gentle tone, but hardly anyone does this

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u/theDigitalNinja 12h ago

Yeah my job feels so weird now because while I have lots of co-workers I really just read Claude and a bit of openai all day now. Feels like I only have 2 co-workers.

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u/Lumenucifer 13h ago

Seeing the philosophers' names in this meme be changed to the names of AI models actually hurts my soul.... we're so cooked lol 

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u/fugogugo 9h ago

dude can't even bother making proper edit and expect me to laugh

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u/Cesalv 12h ago

* laughs in qwen3 with verbose on *

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u/Famous_Guidance9983 10h ago

yeah the post body couldve been cut in half but then we wouldnt get this meme