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These exact arguments could have been made 50 years ago about why laptops are impossible. But now, we not only have laptops, we run horribly inefficient GUIs i
by hackyhacky 7mo ago
These exact arguments could have been made 50 years ago about why laptops are impossible.
But now, we not only have laptops, we run horribly inefficient GUIs in horribly inefficient VMs on them.
The dollar-per-compute trend goes ever downward.
- esseph 7mo agoIt will never ever be as cheap as as cron job and a shell script. There is a certain limit to how efficient using an LLM to do a job vs using an LLM to create a job is. There is a large distinction in compute and power resources between the two. Don't mistake one for the other.
- hackyhacky 7mo ago> It will never ever be as cheap as as cron job and a shell script. Yes. That's precisely why my company runs dBase 7 on a fleet of old 286DX machine from Compaq. /s Running obsolete software will be cheaper, but the value provided by the newer technology will make the difference insignificant.
- esseph 7mo agoI don't think so, because that carried efficiency scales. Why do 50,000 tasks with an LLM when I can do 64,467,235 without an LLM that the LLM created for the same cost on probably far lower cost hardware?
- duskdozer 7mo agoBecause in their ideal world, you won't have your own hardware beyond a secured thin client running only "approved" programs running on their servers.