alt Hacker News> have claude read all your emails every day
But that is exactly what it is sold to people to do as a panacea: consume all the data, produce insights.
Nobody is being instructed to be judicious. Everyone is being instructed to use it as much as possible for all problem areas.
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hirako2000 • yesterday at 6:15 PM
If you make 500k and aren't spending 250k in token, you should get fired.
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at-fates-hands • yesterday at 6:18 PM
>> Nobody is being instructed to be judicious. Everyone is being instructed to use it as much as possible for all problem areas.
Do you think this is because the LLM owners have such a massive ROI they're trying to cover so they're actively encouraging teams not to be judicious so then you get into this vicious cycle where both the LLMs and companies are both burning through cast like crazy?
I should of emphasized it better in my comment but, the nuance of "read all my emails every day" as a prompt can yield a wildly different solution than "read recent emails every day". The first may literally read all your emails over and over, which is a ton of tokens for little gain. The latter is orders of magnitude fewer tokens with the same if not more productivity.
The difference here is just one word in the prompt, but serves as an example of how just a little but of deliberate thought in one's prompt can yield massive efficiency in outcome.
Whats wild to see both online and at work, non engineers given vibe code like tools will quickly show their ignorance to the importance of deliberate design and need for specific instructions one learns via coding. The "missing semi colon" meme is an example of the intuition we all developed early in our coding careers.
Many people are hoping AI can build and design for them, when in reality the deliberate design choices up front are as important if not more so than before AI.