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OpenAI Is A Bad Business (www.wheresyoured.at)

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh my god, this particular point has been so frustrating to me. People talking about how much time it saves them with boilerplate code: If it's that boilerplate make yourself a fucking template! Learn your IDE's damn features, because most have code snippet features now where you can save them right in the damn IDE.

There's vanishly little that LLMs are actually being used for that can't be done far cheaper (computatiomally and cost-wise) with existing tools.

[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

There’s vanishly little that LLMs are actually being used for that can’t be done far cheaper (computatiomally and cost-wise) with existing tools.

Reminds me of the most recent Adam Conover podcast. He had as guests two computer scientists who were purportedly critical of AI, and one of them still shat out something to the effect of:

It does have a use case where something takes longer to produce than it does to verify. For example, a website ...