Fuck AI

tokenmaxxing

I'm doing my part. 👍

People who repeatedly make horrible decisions, with no sign of learning, should not be allowed to continue making decisions. All of these frothy pro-ai people need to go. Let them spend the rest of their days picking up litter or something useful.

Agentic really moved the needle on this. I mean, if your LLM is suffering from a limit, why not let another LLM watch it. While that's going on, why not let yet another orchestrating LLM watch all the LLMs and tell them what to do. It starts to get confusing fast so better use yaLLM (yet another LLM) to watch the whole circus.

it’s now apparent that using AI is more expensive than hiring people, especially since it offers only limited productivity gains at the moment.

And there it is: the wakeup call. The sound of a bubble at least deflating a bit (probably more to come). But we all know it will take months or years for that realization to really sink in. Corporate leadership will mess around trying to cut costs while denying they made a bad call by falling for the hype.

Also, this isn't just hitting tech giants by the way. This is hitting everyone who jumped on the AI bandwagon. What were going to see is a frantic scramble in two directions:

1. hiring a subset of people back because the C-level now realizes they are under-staffed for purpose - emphasis on subset, because they will happily keep overloading those remaining as much as possible.

2. pivoting to open source in-house hosted models to cut costs, and initially struggling with all the janky tooling that will come with it. But even once the tooling has been improved to be somewhat usable, there will still be some initial frustration with these models. For all the problems with the bleeding edge ChatGPT and Claude models, in most cases they are more useable than the self-hosted ones, which lag by a couple of generations.

What I'm hoping to see is the push to rely on AI drop off sharply and a resurgence for online community collaboration and resources. They weren't perfect, but at least they keep one's critical thinking and research skills a little sharper.

Good, fucking crash and burn bastards!

Ive said it before and Ill say it again. These are tools that require skill and training. If you throw an untrained intern at it without prep they'll eat through tokens like crazy, and you wont get much gain.

Theres lots of ways to reduce tokens used by huge amounts, the difference can be on the scale of 90% or better reductions in usage.

But it takes setup, skill, tools, etc. All which require training and learning for the user to know what to use, how to use it, and when.