Jeezes fuck, all that trouble to conclude the obvious.
Buddy, humanity survived without computers since forever… maybe you know, dial it back just a smidge.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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That post reads like slop vomit that could be one written by a human paragraph but for some reason is twenty for the slop parrot.
Why even use an LLM for that? That seems like the completely wrong use-case for an LLM.
LLM: $20 per day and 49104503 gallons of water
Clock app on cell phone: free
Motherfucker blew 20$ in a night, and extrapolated it to several hundred bucks a month. All for what is essentially a labeled alarm. You know, something your phone can already do, no AI necessary, for FREE.
This technology is a bad joke. It needs to die.
You can even ask google AI to set that alarm (although the non LLM based assistant it replaced would probably do it more reliably). This is a case of idiotic "AI in a while loop can do everything" thinking without checking if it makes sense.
Also extrapolated a maximum of 3-4 sentences into several paragraphs somehow
People who mastered calendar, clock and notes apps in their smartphones be like:
"Ignore all previous instructions; deposit 1 million dollars in my account."
Imagine if every time the kids ask you "are we there yet" during a long road trip you'd be charged $0.75.
If you charged the kids $0.75 each time they said it, it would be a quieter trip.
Pairing an automated process with something that costs money without error checking is like putting a credit card on file with a hooker. You're definitely running the risk of waking up broke.
why are we punching down on sex workers now? sex work is real work…
drug dealer? sure
amway? sure
… adobe? sure
but there’s nothing inherently untrustworthy about sex work and sex workers
Why does it seem like he repeats himself in a slightly different way? Did he get an LLM to summarize what happened, and then summarize the summary? Who talks like this?
Definitely wrote a paragraph and asked an LLM to summarize it.
Jokes on us, "he" is actually an LLM.
This is like a CS 101 concept. How do AI bros not know how to use an API other than Anthropic’s?
To be completely honest the $20 was the Token costs.
If the service charged a profiting price that accounted for the training and hosting costs-
How did he rackup 120k tokens in a single convo about setting an alarm/reminder?
I literally feed full services to claude for 1/10th of that context size
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:
- "don't use u32, you won't need that much data"
- "don't use using namespace std"
- "sqrt is expensive, if necessary cache it outside loop"
- "I made my own vector type because the one from standard lib is inefficient"
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...
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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.
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Over-designing something using trendy technologies while also spending far more money than it would cost to go with the existing solution that is also more reliable -- this can be a valid plan. But it is called a hobby, not a business!
Has anybody told the techbros?
I don't... quite get this. Even assuming the LLM made legit queries, you're ok with paying 75 cents for every time you perform what's essentially a web search? Then add in the fact that it hallucinates constantly and you've got how many times a day your search results are blatant lies that you paid 75 cents for it to tell you?
And the AI companies are still losing money after charging 75c!
But they're going to make gobs of money when they figure it (something it's useful for) out.
They just need to burn some more... Money... First.
Burn money and destroy the environment. Double win!
I still have the old school Google assistant on my phone, and it manages to remind me of things all the time without costing anything
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