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I find it somewhat funny that the author starts by talking about how Moore's law enabled inefficient software and that we then had to make it more efficient, when almost all software today is horrendously inefficient compared to even 10 years ago, let alone 20-30. We've somehow even achieved a state where it doesn't matter how fast your CPU and memory are, the software will just perform horribly on any machine.

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One of the funniest parts of the LLM wave is discovering that cron was so annoying to use that we will burn the planet to put an interface on it that people can actually work with.

The tendency for absolute inefficiency is effectively unbounded until scarcity is imposed.

Assuming you are referring to using an LLM to generate crontab entries, is that a bad move? Seems like it removes the need for layers of UI that most of the time is never used. Same goes for regexes. Actually same for SQL. No need for layers to translate between what the user can specify and what's executed. Just type what you want to query for and the LLM generates the SQL.

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