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> loading a few thousand tokens of raw JSON into a context window, asking a language model to reformat data it did not need to reason about... > That trap catc

by eulgro 3mo ago

> loading a few thousand tokens of raw JSON into a context window, asking a language model to reformat data it did not need to reason about... > That trap catches almost everyone right now. Has everyone really become so stupid now? I wouldn't even have thought of doing such a horrible thing as using AI to format JSON... Needless to say I stopped reading there.

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bigstrat2003 3mo ago
> Has everyone really become so stupid now? Not everyone. But unfortunately, yes, very many people have.
marwann 3mo ago
> Has everyone really become so stupid now? I wouldn't mistake stupidity for ignorance. A lot of "tech-sensitive", yet non-technical people are using agents/vibe coding these days. Their level of understanding is very basic ("JSON is structured data", "I need to reformat this to fit my need"), but they wouldn't get that the best way of doing things does not necessitate burning tokens.