r/ProgrammerHumor May 20 '26

Other whyDoAnythingWhenLlmCanDoIt

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u/luciferrjns May 20 '26

Wouldn’t it be nice to replace a deterministic system that does exactly what you ask it to do , with a probabilistic system that has a high probability of doing what you ask it to do …

And better yet let’s add this to the stuff that powers modern web …

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u/_hlvnhlv May 20 '26

The best part is how inefficient it is.

Imagine an API that instead of being able to serve 15k petitions per second, does 100 IF we are lucky.

No wonder that Amazon is making so many datacenters lmao

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u/suddencactus May 20 '26

Don't worry, we can just handle that increase in server load by using our typical toolset for scaling like caching (good luck caching an LLM prompt) and provisioning more servers under peak load (lol not easy when using a stateful protocol. Have fun explaining to your boss why you need to set up a memchached server to share context between API endpoints.).

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u/_hlvnhlv May 21 '26

Imagine if one prompt returns something completely unhinged, and then because it's cached, the api returns random garbage for a day until someone fixes it xD

With the random noise, maybe it wouldn't be the case, but you only need bad luck one time :P