Re:The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
by Diogenesian on Thursday July 16, 2026 @10:36AM
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Actually, the METR report speculates that some of the overreported productivity uplift comes from grabbing unnecessary low-hanging fruit, things like "oh I'll make a web dashboard to keep track of this stuff // wow that would have taken all day without Claude!" But in the olden days they would have just used a notepad. Yet psychologically they built a real thing and saved a lot of time.
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Re:The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
by breadzeppelin__ on Thursday July 16, 2026 @10:59AM
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True I have made a few low tier apps that just hit apis that were previously obfuscated deep in menus that have had an outsized impact
Re:The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
by thaumasiotes on Friday July 17, 2026 @09:16AM
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> But in the olden days they would have just used a notepad. Yet psychologically they built a real thing and saved a lot of time.
There was an old Onion article about the monetary savings from buying clothes on sale as computed by (a) the women buying the clothes; and (b) their male relatives.