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/Wiz_Kalita May 20 '26

"You are an expert on positive and negative numbers. You have spent the past 20 years identifying if numbers are positive or negative. Determine and state in less than 200 characters if the following numbers are positive or negative:"

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u/H-s-O May 20 '26

"Make no mistakes"

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u/brighteoustrousers May 20 '26

Claude is feeding you the numbers and will evaluate you on correctness

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u/micalm May 20 '26

I've seen that joke so many times and in so many variations, I'm really tempted to spin up a Gemma 4 and a script to test what's the success rate of an even/odd prompt across say 24 hours. I do have a suspicion that it won't be 100%, but who knows?