"find a list of social events in my area"

Isn't this something you can do with a simple Google search? Or Perplexity?

No need to shove by far the most expensive LLM (Claude Opus 4) at it.

Not for the Los Angeles metro area. There isn’t a single calendar or event aggregator that covers the entire area and with an LLM I can give it complex schedules (i.e. a dump of my calendar for that week) and preferences to filter the list of events for the stuff I like, including vague stuff like “I like country music in the style of ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’ but not modern country radio”.

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theshrike79 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

That sounds like a startup for me.

Collate all the LA Metro area events from different sources and whip up an app or web site where people can filter them and subscribe to the events in Google Calendar or in .ical format.

You can even have Claude vibe code it for you :)

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tkiolp4 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Killing a fly with a cannonball.

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throwup238 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Doesn’t really matter when the marginal cost of the cannonball is effectively zero - I’m already paying the monthly subscription.

Then not using the canonball is just a waste of time, which is a heck of a lot more valuable than some purist aversion to using LLMs to save time and effort.

	▲	steve_adams_86 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		One could argue this is like paying a subscription for gasoline and saying you better use it up or it's a waste. There's an externality at play. I know LLMs aren't as much of an environmental scourge as people sometimes make them out to be, but if they're used eagerly and aggressively, their impacts certainly have a capability of scaling in concerning ways.

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Zopieux 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Gosh I so despise this new normal. Just when I thought I could fight bloat and unnecessary tech in my own tiny corner of the world, only for a few to ruin it with ridiculous LLM (ab)use.

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xboxnolifes 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Where is the fly swatter at?