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		esseph 40 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone ... 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?

duskdozer 40 days ago [–]

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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