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> This article reads like a description of gambling-addiction behavior; the author appears to be addicted to using LLMs.

you're projecting, it's just insanely irritating to work with a tool that 1) limits its' own use 2) with a random interval.

keeping in mind that plenty of people are making money on token use..

this guy sets a timer to wake up for work; he appears to be addicted to work.

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I have a subscription. If I don't have anything to do at the moment I don't use it. I don't think I need to set a timer every five hours and come up with tasks to do just to use my subscription. Seems like odd behavior?

I also have a Netflix subscription. I watch a couple of things on it and stop. I don't think to myself I need to maximize my subscription so let me watch movies all the time and wake up at 2 AM to make sure the next movie starts.

I encourage you others to keep on minimizing so us others can keep in maximizing. Balance!

If you don’t want 1 or 2 then pay by the token. If that’s too expensive for you then now you know why 1 and 2 exist.

That's fine, but that doesn't mean that people taking steps to get the most out of what they have with 1 and 2 are now somehow gamblers.

> it's just insanely irritating to work with a tool that 1) limits its' own use 2) with a random interval.

Do you understand how the psychological response to the "random" disappearance of an annoyance is pretty much exactly the same as the psychological response to the "random" appearance of a reward?

I put "random" in square quotes because neither are in fact totally random, but both are clearly quite carefully engineered to provoke the desired response.

> you're projecting

I am not projecting. My total lifetime gambling consists of maybe 10 or 15 cash poker games with high school friends, ten minutes at a casino in Montréal which I found a revolting experience, and receiving a few $1 scratch lottery tickets as party favors.

How does that mean you're not projecting? Yes if you oversimplify an LLM's responses to be random, and you squint real hard, it kinda resembles gambling, but an essay's worth of words is more meaningful to a human reading them than a human pulling a lever on a slot machine hoping for three sets of three cherries.

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