I know I'm guilty of making this sort of argument sometimes, but it's just not valid. I don't get paid for every waking hour of every day. Often I'm using an L

I know I'm guilty of making this sort of argument sometimes, but it's just not valid. I don't get paid for every waking hour of every day. Often I'm using an LLM for something that's uncompensated, so my hourly wage equivalent is irrelevant. And for times when we might use an LLM for something related to paid work, it's still money out of your paycheck (unless the employer is paying for it; go nuts in that case). And it's not like using the LLM lets you go home early if it saves you time. You just end up doing more work. I still use them because they're a useful tool sometimes. But I don't pretend it has negligible or no cost. (Not to mention the externalities around electricity use, crazy data center buildout, skyrocketing GPU and RAM prices, etc.)