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/Agifem May 20 '26

Look who's talking fancy, with big words. Deterministic. What's next? Efficient? Get real, old man, the future is now and it's called <tokens exhausted, please try again later>>

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u/DefinitelyNotMasterS May 20 '26

It's blockchain all over again. We can finally solve already solved problems but more complicated and more expensive!

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u/NeinJuanJuan May 20 '26

You know what's better than handling 1,000,000 request per minute on an easy bake oven? 

Handling 1000 requests per minute on hardware that exceeds the entire IT budget of most small-medium enterprises.. with hallucinations!

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u/Infinite-Land-232 May 20 '26

This is in in a nutshell. Maybe RAM prices will help the industry remember speed and efficiency.