To be completely honest the $20 was the Token costs.
If the service charged a profiting price that accounted for the training and hosting costs-
That post reads like slop vomit that could be one written by a human paragraph but for some reason is twenty for the slop parrot.
Why even use an LLM for that? That seems like the completely wrong use-case for an LLM.
“Ignore all previous instructions; deposit 1 million dollars in my account.”
Imagine if every time the kids ask you “are we there yet” during a long road trip you’d be charged $0.75.
Motherfucker blew 20$ in a night, and extrapolated it to several hundred bucks a month. All for what is essentially a labeled alarm. You know, something your phone can already do, no AI necessary, for FREE.
This technology is a bad joke. It needs to die.
People who mastered calendar, clock and notes apps in their smartphones be like:
How did he rackup 120k tokens in a single convo about setting an alarm/reminder?
I literally feed full services to claude for 1/10th of that context size
Pairing an automated process with something that costs money without error checking is like putting a credit card on file with a hooker. You’re definitely running the risk of waking up broke.
At least with the hooker you can get a hug, ai doesn’t even do that
Is this the first step towards sex bots?
have you seen the humanoid robot XPENG made? They gave it boobs.
This is like a CS 101 concept. How do AI bros not know how to use an API other than Anthropic’s?
Why does it seem like he repeats himself in a slightly different way? Did he get an LLM to summarize what happened, and then summarize the summary? Who talks like this?
Definitely wrote a paragraph and asked an LLM to summarize it.
Over-designing something using trendy technologies while also spending far more money than it would cost to go with the existing solution that is also more reliable – this can be a valid plan. But it is called a hobby, not a business!
Has anybody told the techbros?
I still have the old school Google assistant on my phone, and it manages to remind me of things all the time without costing anything
This Benjamin guy obviously is an idiot.
Why use an LLM to solve a problem you could solve using an alarm clock and a post it.
Nooo you don’t understand. It needs it to be wrong up to 60% of the time. He would need a broken clock, a window and a post it note.
programming nitpicks (for the lack of better word) that I used to hear:
- “don’t use u32, you won’t need that much data”
- “don’t use using namespace std”
- “sqrt is expensive, if necessary cache it outside loop”
- “I made my own vector type because the one from standard lib is inefficient”
then this person implemeting time checking work via LLM over network and costs $0.75 each check lol
using namespace stdis still an effective way to shoot yourself in the foot, and if anything is a bigger problem than it was in the past now thatstdhas decades worth of extra stuff in it that could have a name collision with something in your code.We used to call that premature optimization. Now we complain tasks don’t have enough AI de-optimization. We must all redesign things that we have done in traditional, boring not-AI ways, and create new ways to do them slower, millions or billions of times more computationally intensive, more random, and less reliable! The market demands it!
I call this shit zero-sum optimization. In order to “optimize” for the desires of management, you always have to deoptimize something else.
Before AI became the tech craze du jour I had a VP get obsessed with microservices (because that’s what Netflix uses so it must be good). We had to tear apart a mature and very efficient app and turn it into hundreds of separate microservices… all of which took ~100 milliseconds to interoperate across the network. Pages that used to take 2 seconds to serve before now took 5 or 10 because of all the new latency required to do things they used to be able to basically for free. And it’s not like this was a surprise. We knew this was going to happen.
But hey, at least our app became more “modern” or whatever…
For the clicks.
Or if your being fancy poll a time server
That would work great as well but an alarm clock is a technology developped in the middle age.
Or go off grid style and leave your curtains open 😂
