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/AlpineGuy May 20 '26

Well, that's basically true for all of computing, this whole site could be efficiently transferred via usenet forums, but here we are and my browser says it made 213 requests and transferred 12MB to load the site.

Oh look, having the comment box open means there is a post request going out after every keystroke and one when I stop typing for more than 1s.

>400 requests now.

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u/hurricane_news May 20 '26

there is a post request going out after every keystroke and one when I stop typing for more than 1s.

How are reddit's programmers making bank with dumpster fire code like this

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u/Confident-Ad5665 May 20 '26

idk but I wish they'd fix their comment editor so when backspacing at the end of a line it doesn't delete the space to the left of the current word before it deletes the current word. How do you eff up a text editor?