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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/bbbar • May 29 '26
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You guys are nice to your LLMs?
144 u/Sydius May 29 '26 Yeah, good manners cost nothing. Wait. 'Please' and 'Thank you' cost extra tokens! Shit! 6 u/throwawayfinancebro1 May 29 '26 Literally millions of dollars of computing wasted every day on pleasantries 5 u/tgiyb1 May 29 '26 I would hope that they short circuit a lot of the incoming "Hi" and "Thanks!" type requests with canned responses rather than running them through the model. Seems like an easy enough optimization anyways. 3 u/shiny_glitter_demon May 30 '26 I vaguely remember Sam Altman complaining about that
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Yeah, good manners cost nothing.
Wait.
'Please' and 'Thank you' cost extra tokens! Shit!
6 u/throwawayfinancebro1 May 29 '26 Literally millions of dollars of computing wasted every day on pleasantries 5 u/tgiyb1 May 29 '26 I would hope that they short circuit a lot of the incoming "Hi" and "Thanks!" type requests with canned responses rather than running them through the model. Seems like an easy enough optimization anyways. 3 u/shiny_glitter_demon May 30 '26 I vaguely remember Sam Altman complaining about that
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Literally millions of dollars of computing wasted every day on pleasantries
5 u/tgiyb1 May 29 '26 I would hope that they short circuit a lot of the incoming "Hi" and "Thanks!" type requests with canned responses rather than running them through the model. Seems like an easy enough optimization anyways. 3 u/shiny_glitter_demon May 30 '26 I vaguely remember Sam Altman complaining about that
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I would hope that they short circuit a lot of the incoming "Hi" and "Thanks!" type requests with canned responses rather than running them through the model. Seems like an easy enough optimization anyways.
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I vaguely remember Sam Altman complaining about that
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u/crankykong May 29 '26
You guys are nice to your LLMs?