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Stephen Hawking wouldn't exist in our society if we didn't care for people like him.

This post reminds me of the book recommendation shared on Facebook.

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Bedridden and suffering from a neurological disorder, the author recounts the profound effect on her life caused by a gift of a snail in a potted plant and shares the lessons learned from her new companion about her the meaning of her life and the life of the small creature.

In the fullness of time, LLMs will eventually become commodities and their price will be a race to the bottom. As the competitive advantage of one LLM over another shrinks - particularly as open source models expand - the value proposition will turn to the neuro/symbolic harnesses that use those models, structures that encompass agents, agent orchestration, tooling, and component plugins. Even those from frontier AI organizations will fall to open source frameworks. The last thing standing will be those who command the data centers on which these things run, and even then, that will become a commodity, with the number of players shrinking to just a few survivors. They too will find pressure: as computational power rises, more and more such systems will be run locally. - Grady Booch

This comment made me imagine what would the guy maintaining my first deployed project at my first company thinks about me. Never had this thought ever cross my mind.

That is like running Photoshop reliably on an encrypted image.

This is Indian Jugaad mentality being imported into Software Development. English equivalent is Kludge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad

> I suspect it's not seen as a problem by providers because more lines generated means more tokens used and hence more billing put out on customers.

To generate elegant code with more restrictions, it means more thinking tokens and more stronger adherence to instructions. So tha naive view that they are doing it for billing is wrong.

They'll do some other engineering like thing...

Maybe like work in space tourism industry to Earth-Moon 5 Lagrange points.