• motruck@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    I mean have you used an agent? They are fucking dumb and make a ton of queries to get anything done.

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      24 hours ago

      Some agent may do 100 queries for 1 user question, but a single scraper bot will do 100 queries every single second of every single day, and costs less to run than the LLM.

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        17 hours ago

        Fair point. Scrapping is definitely the low overhead high impact problem.

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      Oh yeah, 100% true, “amount of traffic does not even remotely map to amount of actual work being done especially on such a horrifically inefficient system” was a point I meant to bring up but I sprung a leak in a blood vessel from sheer rage before I could even get there. Thank you.

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      2 days ago

      Just pay for more cloud compute that will fix it…

      Would you like to know more? That’s gonna cost ya.

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        10 hours ago

        As an aside the recent trend of using compute as a noun instead of a verb really pisses me off, it’s so goddamn stupid.

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          9 hours ago

          I agree. Though since my comment was intended to be annoying (in the same way the current reality is) I shall stand by its use here.

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      A lot of times their training is lacking in whatever I’m trying to get them to do, so I have to direct them to read particular web pages in order to have a clue what they’re supposed to be parroting.