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0 pointsself_awareness4h ago0 comments

If you wonder why your Copilot subscription has new limits that you hit every few days, it's because of PhDs like Adam.

Could Adam use a local model hosted on his own box? Probably yes. But he preferred to waste the service we all use just to produce a weak blog post that introduces absolutely no knowledge and serves no other purpose than to tell everyone that the author likes to waste resources and calls it "fun".

> Ridiculous? Yes. Wasteful of tokens? Sure. Fun? Oh yeah!

Do you really think it's fun to be one of these people who are the reason why the rest of us gets more limits?

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mystifyingpoi4h ago

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

self_awarenessOP4h ago

No.

In our lives, the game we play, we can do whatever we like. There are consequences for some things, but generally we can do lots of things.

We can kill people and get away with it. We can also help them.

Should we hate life because it's possible to do really shitty things in life? I don't think so. We should hate the "players" who actually do shitty things.

wolttam3h ago

Ok but hating a guy playing with an LLM is a bit extreme. These things are in many ways still just toys (toys that are becoming increasingly useful).

People almost certainly send dumber stuff to Claude than this, and just don’t write blog posts about it.

You could try other providers if Anthropic is too slow/limited, there’s some good alternatives.

(And your anger should probably be directed at Anthropic who hasn’t put in “better controls”, not the masses for not using the tool in the way you think they should. Hating rarely leads to anything productive.)

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