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I mean have you used an agent? They are fucking dumb and make a ton of queries to get anything done.
Some agent may do 100 queries for 1 user question, but a single scraper bot will do 100 queries every single second of every single day, and costs less to run than the LLM.
A lot of times their training is lacking in whatever I'm trying to get them to do, so I have to direct them to read particular web pages in order to have a clue what they're supposed to be parroting.
Oh yeah, 100% true, “amount of traffic does not even remotely map to amount of actual work being done especially on such a horrifically inefficient system” was a point I meant to bring up but I sprung a leak in a blood vessel from sheer rage before I could even get there. Thank you.
Just pay for more cloud compute that will fix it...
Would you like to know more? That's gonna cost ya.