Comment by titanomachy
7 days ago
The electricity cost per unit of machine “reasoning” is vastly less than the cost of salary for human reasoning. That’s a weak argument. You should focus on the second part… LLMs (at least today’s) don’t build simple solutions, and the complexity they introduce has a cost.
> LLMs (at least today’s) don’t build simple solutions ...
... by default.
Not sure why this is downvoted but you truly can get a lot of mileage out of asking Claude to simplify things.
Definitely. One of my fav techniques is to ask an LLM to simplify something by 90% or 99% if it looks overly complicated. Or asking the output to be critically reviewed by another agent too.