> using them is quite cheap.

until the other guys comes out with a slightly better model, then using yours wont be cheap enough.

Because they have a good sense of how things can go horribly wrong.

The third AI winter is coming. This is the one where it works for some cases but is too expensive.

Please please regulate us, and don't forget all our competitors too, who cant afford to deal with it.

The comments are talking about two different things. There's traditional tipping, like at restaurants, barber, etc, where you supposedly tip for good service, and there's the newish POS (point of sale) tipping screens that are showing up everywhere and are a dark pattern for extracting extra money for doing nothing.

We're coming up on another AI winter. This is the one where AI is useful, but too expensive.

Building a gaming PC in the spring of 2025 was probably one of the luckiest things I've ever had happen. 32G DDR5 for 90 bucks, 4TB drive for about 200 bucks. Funny thing is I held off upgrading my GPU to wait for the price to come down from the crypto rush :)

Not that long ago to find both sides of an argument in the comments you could search by "controversial" and the negative comments would be at the top and often you'd agree with them, or at least appreciate the debate. Now they are mostly gone. It was probably a combination of banning wrong-think and dissidents learning to not waste their time.

The worst thing for a forum is to let users punish comments they disagree with, you know, one way by fading out their comments until you cant read them.

I think it's the latter. People don't want to waste their time.

Echo chambers have gotten stronger.

It's not so much the time wasted in discussions, but the time wasted in having to create new accounts, since your old one got banned from the platform. Though, since the last presidency change in the USA it feels like reddit has gotten less ban-happy.

Before I added a bunch of subreddits to my blacklist that will never show up again in a search engine I had to make a new reddit account every four to six months.

It's really a shame when I stumble across an old (8y+) reddit post from search results, and I see that the useful replies are either from [deleted] or [Removed by moderator]. :(

But I also see ones asking to select motorcycles, and then they show lots of photos, obviously somewhere in SE asia, all of scooters.

You could just not use LLMs?

How? It's like waking up in the 90s and deciding "not to use the Internet". How would you even do it without sounding wacko? I'm not even asking "why", there are a bunch of reasons for why one may choose not to drive a car, eat beef or watch Netflix, and they may even be the right reasons, but I honestly don't understand, do you not see what's going on? The shit is out of the horse, you can't put it back, you can't pretend it's not happening; everybody understands that the horse just keeps shitting. And you're saying: "can you not make the horse shit?"...

there are probably countless dev jobs that aren't in code factories and don't bottleneck on coding. I know, I'm doing one now.

> don't bottleneck on coding

It makes me feel very uncomfortable to say this - I don't want to appear presumptuous or patronising, but it honestly sounds almost like you have little or no clue about this.

LLMs are not about code generation. Code generation is almost like a side-effect and there are so many different things LLMs are really good at way before you get to even talk about code - gathering data by its semantic fingerprint; classification and routing where the boundary is fuzzy: is this a bug, a config error, or a support question; semantic diffing; reading stuff nobody will read: a 900-line helm file, a dependency tree, six months of changelogs, a vendor contract, etc.

If you have never dealt with cases where the input is messy and the matching criteria are impossible to write as rules, yes, of course it would feel like you don't even need LLMs. But pretty much any serious software does have plenty of those, and LLMs are incredibly good at that. Not only they are great - they are quite irreplaceable, in the sense that, yes, I won't die if I stop using the Internet, but any reason for choosing that path obviously must have some drastic rationale.

> LLMs are not about code generation.

yet that is what most people are using it for