ICYMI | Pour one out for community
So, instead of having a place where a lot of questions have been collectively answered satisfactorily, indexed, archived, and catalogued, we are choosing the method of individually asking the same questions over and over again. If I have the exact same question as you do, I need to ask the LLM again. All the tokens, and energy, and GPUs, and training data, and models, are doing the same work twice. Or thrice. Or a billion times. Instead of a thousand people finding one answer that's one search away, we are asking the same question a thousand times. Instead of a thousand people typing "How do I reference a specific list item in Python" on the search box and getting answers, we're asking LLMs to compute and generate the same answer a thousand times. And that's only possible for those who even have access to these tools.