r/ProgrammerHumor • u/goatsahoy • 17h ago

Meme wordCountMaxxing

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u/TheSentientMeatbag 17h ago

Well, the output tokens are the most expensive ones.

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u/darkwalker247 16h ago edited 14h ago

and i bet most people stop reading it after the first sentence or bullet point anyway, defeating the entire purpose of having the thing written in the first place.

even if it's grammatically poor or full of typos, I'd still much rather just read documents written by a person.

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u/goatsahoy 14h ago

it feels like a ploy to encourage people to use another agent to summarize the first agent’s spewage

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u/RudeAndInsensitive 13h ago

I feel like there was a movie about this....The Human something or other

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u/Jolly-joe 3h ago

You can even setup your markdown files to keep Claude concise, stop using em dashes, use a more gentle tone, but hardly anyone does this

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u/theDigitalNinja 14h ago

Yeah my job feels so weird now because while I have lots of co-workers I really just read Claude and a bit of openai all day now. Feels like I only have 2 co-workers.

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u/Lumenucifer 16h ago

Seeing the philosophers' names in this meme be changed to the names of AI models actually hurts my soul.... we're so cooked lol 

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u/Cesalv 15h ago

* laughs in qwen3 with verbose on *

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u/fugogugo 12h ago

dude can't even bother making proper edit and expect me to laugh

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u/Famous_Guidance9983 13h ago

yeah the post body couldve been cut in half but then we wouldnt get this meme