Post #4393827
2026-08-05 15:00 UTC
3. Imagine two tasks that consume the same amount of LLM tokens, where the LLM cuts the time in half. Task A is tedious, takes 40 hours, and is "low value". Task B is interesting, invigorating, takes 8 hours, and is "high value". Both tasks will be completed on time.
Guidance would be to use LLM to complete Task B, but using the LLM on Task A would save more hours of work, work that is unenjoyable. The employee's mind would be fresher and able to do other work sooner.
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@scottmiller42@mstdn.social 2026-08-05 15:04
4. All of this is predicated on knowing about how many tokens a particular task uses, which from what I've seen, the LLMs have deliberately made it nearly difficult to measure the tokens used by a particular session or project. This may change under pressure of business leaders now that they have suddenly become LLM cost-conscious. 5/5