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Why use an LLM to solve a problem you could solve using an alarm clock and a post it.
programming nitpicks (for the lack of better word) that I used to hear:
then this person implemeting time checking work via LLM over network and costs $0.75 each check lol
We used to call that premature optimization. Now we complain tasks don't have enough AI de-optimization. We must all redesign things that we have done in traditional, boring not-AI ways, and create new ways to do them slower, millions or billions of times more computationally intensive, more random, and less reliable! The market demands it!
I call this shit zero-sum optimization. In order to "optimize" for the desires of management, you always have to deoptimize something else.
Before AI became the tech craze du jour I had a VP get obsessed with microservices (because that's what Netflix uses so it must be good). We had to tear apart a mature and very efficient app and turn it into hundreds of separate microservices... all of which took ~100 milliseconds to interoperate across the network. Pages that used to take 2 seconds to serve before now took 5 or 10 because of all the new latency required to do things they used to be able to basically for free. And it's not like this was a surprise. We knew this was going to happen.
But hey, at least our app became more "modern" or whatever...
using namespace stdis still an effective way to shoot yourself in the foot, and if anything is a bigger problem than it was in the past now thatstdhas decades worth of extra stuff in it that could have a name collision with something in your code.Nooo you don't understand. It needs it to be wrong up to 60% of the time. He would need a broken clock, a window and a post it note.
For the clicks.
Or if your being fancy poll a time server
That would work great as well but an alarm clock is a technology developped in the middle age.
Or go off grid style and leave your curtains open 😂