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I love how the promise of free labor motivates everyone to become API first, document their practices, and plan ahead in writing before coding.
by sshine 1y ago
I love how the promise of free labor motivates everyone to become API first, document their practices, and plan ahead in writing before coding.
- ebiester 1y agoIt helps that you can have the "free" labor document the processes and build the plan.
- skybrian 1y agoCheaper, not free. Also, no training to learn a new skill. Building a new one that works well is a project, but then it will scale up as much as you like. This is bringing some of the advantages of software development to office tasks, but you give up some things like reliable, deterministic results.
- sshine 1y agoThere is an acquisition cost of researching and developing the LLM, but the running cost should not be classified as a wage, hence cost of labor is zero.
- maigret 1y agoIt’s still opex for finance
- skybrian 1y agoDon't call it "free labor" at all then? Regardless, running an LLM is usually not free.
- sshine 1y agoI wouldn’t be able to express the embedded irony if I didn’t use this oxymoron. On the one hand, AI doesn’t classify as labor in a traditional sense, even though some aspire to replace labor with AI. On the other hand, if it classified as labor under some new definition, it isn’t free when you consider the external costs of outsourcing basic brain activity, as an individual and as a society.