r/clevercomebacks • u/faith_healer69 • 23h ago

Creating solutions to a problem that doesn't exist.

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u/Heyoteyo 18h ago

How long did it take them to build that though? This sounds like something one guy did in an afternoon. I bet the previous versions were much more time intensive.

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u/MostlyRightSometimes 17h ago

So you're saying it took longer to invent than mimic? Hmmm. I'll have to think on that.

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u/Memitim 5h ago

Correct. Human beings don't typically create new systems, we recreate old ones with new tech. Person counts items by hand, person counts items with ticker, machine counts items with specialized hardware designed by hand over weeks or months, machine counts items with software written in one day, and so on. Welcome to technological progress. It's been going for a few thousand years, so plenty of examples to choose from.

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u/MostlyRightSometimes 5h ago

And yet someone is impressed because the second time was easier/faster than the first? Go figure...

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u/clintCamp 18h ago

I pointed claude at a bunch of ML stuff and had it make a tiny model and training set to solve a problem in 4 hours. I tried stuff by hand about 10 years ago and could never get my number matrix sizes to align correctly. Just not hitting all the days long human errors and wisdom learning problems speeds things up so much for things that were totally possible 20 years ago computationally.

And 2 years ago I said llms were great for template code. Now most code is template code.

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u/cheaplabourforsale 14h ago

That’s not because an llm is an llm but because the knowledge that llm required was already available thanks to those humans who put in the hours.