Killing a fly with a cannonball.

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?