@[url=https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic]Cory Doctorow[/url] @[url=https://ohai.social/users/resuna]Resuna[/url] @[url=https://chaos.social/users/zerok]zerok[/url] It's more computationally expensive than writing a simple script to do the same thing. You just don't notice it because modern computers are so stupidly powerful.
There is a big caveat to this statement though: the latter requires the user to know [em]how[/em] to write such a script, or to have one convieniently handy. Plus, you have to weigh the effort of writing such a script against the amount of work it's going to save you.
Personally, I wouodn't trust an LLM not to hallucinate and subtly corrupt my work in a non-obvious way, but that's a judgement call and you might choose differently.
Jonathan Lamothe
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