The Greenhouse and the Lens: Two Modes of Agentic AI Work

cadamsdotcom 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sometimes you have a goal & clarity about what you want; others you're just exploring.

Just as non-assisted work: an undisciplined mind will wander. But when there's also an assistant, you're prone to having the wandering done for you.

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afry1 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> These tools came about because the cost of trying things out has dropped to nearly zero.

What an obscenely disconnected and privileged notion. "Nearly zero" still currently equates to thousands of dollars of subscription expense per year that normal, workaday people can't afford.

Not to mention the fact that even at this untenable "introductory" level of expense, you're really burning hundreds of thousands of dollars of tokens to do, what was that again?

"Just let the LLM run wild for a while and see what come out the other end?"

"Generate ten solutions to one targeted problem and throw nine of them away because this garbage technology still can't get it right on even the 9th try?"

No wonder the rich bastards of the world love this stuff so much. It encourages so much wanton, indiscriminate, pointless waste in its users.

	▲	godwinson__4-8 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> What an obscenely disconnected and privileged notion. "Nearly zero" still currently equates to thousands of dollars of subscription expense per year that normal, workaday people can't afford. You seem disconnected from the very public pricing tiers? Hate to break it to you buddy but these tools are mainstream for regular consumers. And very few people (outside of enterprise) are paying thousands of dollars per year. Not to mention all the things happening with increasingly capable oss models. You seem very angry, in a very misdirected way. The fact you can't seem to grasp the reality of what these things are costing the average consumer suggests this misdirection is rather severe. Hope you are able to channel your resentment into a more reasonable set of grievances, or at least, ones more resembling reality. While I am sympathetic to your general notions, the basic inaccuracy makes it extremely hard to take you seriously.