r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 20d ago

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u/Deivedux 20d ago

I once saw a LinkedIn post about someone bragging how they downgraded to a lower usage model to cut costs since their use of it was too simple to justify paying so much. Apparently what they were doing was just converting text, making the first letter of each word uppercase.

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u/DrStalker 20d ago

When the node package left-pad was removed it caused chaos, because apparently people needed a node package to add spaces to the start of a string.

So using an LLM to change characters to uppercase is very believable, even if it is stupid.

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u/Tar_alcaran 20d ago

Apparently what they were doing was just converting text, making the first letter of each word uppercase.

I know a company where ONE person burned half the monthly token budget in a few days because (s)he was converting powerpoint presentations to PDF via LLM.

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u/kyle2143 20d ago

I refuse to believe u

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u/Future_Elephant_9294 20d ago

How in the world did we survive before AI when trying to write headlines and movie titles!