Hacker News·3 min read·medium
Not everything should cost a token: the case for deterministic AI
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The article argues that developers are overusing large language models for deterministic tasks that could be handled more efficiently by simple scripts. It warns that routing mechanical data processing through AI leads to unnecessary costs, latency, and reliability issues.
A team I talked to recently wired up an agent to do something simple: pull a metrics API every morning, reshape the JSON, and drop the result into a table. Clean idea. It worked on day one.
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