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Re:ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did by esseph on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:19PM (#47356468)
It will never ever be as cheap as as cron job and a shell script. There is a certain limit to how efficient using an LLM to do a job vs using an LLM to create a job is. There is a large distinction in compute and power resources between the two. Don't mistake one for the other.
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Re:ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did by hackyhacky on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:02PM (#47357869)
> It will never ever be as cheap as as cron job and a shell script.

Yes. That's precisely why my company runs dBase 7 on a fleet of old 286DX machine from Compaq. /s

Running obsolete software will be cheaper, but the value provided by the newer technology will make the difference insignificant.

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Re:ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did by esseph on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:24PM (#47358116)
I don't think so, because that carried efficiency scales.

Why do 50,000 tasks with an LLM when I can do 64,467,235 without an LLM that the LLM created for the same cost on probably far lower cost hardware?

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Re:ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did by duskdozer on Friday March 13, 2026 @07:34AM (#47363050)
Because in their ideal world, you won't have your own hardware beyond a secured thin client running only "approved" programs running on their servers.
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