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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Joking aside - I think the whole "engineer time is expensive, computer time is cheap" approach stopped being true half a decade or so before LLMs were a thing. It was kind of self defeating - you'd think companies were trying to increase their usage of computing resources due to some misconception that it'd automatically decrease work humans have to do, saving them money in the long run.
I don't have the numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if software/hardware costs exceeded engineering costs for about a decade now, with all these inefficient-on-purpose frameworks and with everything being on the cloud and with using various services for the sake of using a service.