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Re:Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs by QuercusMax on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @01:55PM (#49261981)
Prior to LLMs I never considered that I might have to make a resource-usage decision between hiring Star Trek's Data vs. his stupider brother B4...

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/B-4

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Re:Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:47PM (#49264952)
Star Trek is a post-scarcity society, those problems don't exist there unless you're in the middle of a crisis and on emergency power.

LLMs briefly seemed like this too, after subscriptions made the SOTA models too cheap to meter, but before they walked back on that and introduced quotas...

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