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@ronaldtootall @hannu_ikonen

by portraying LLMs as a panacea, the hypemongers have successfully kneecapped a lot of people's ability to consider alternative tools that are often well known, widely used for decades, and solve the specific problem they're targeting with a 0% fail rate.

i've had to tell project managers way too many times, "no, we don't need to pay OpenAI to fuck up at doing what regex does perfectly. all we're trying to do is extract a consistently-formatted string for fucks sake."