Passing thought on the Claude code leak, and how messy and wasteful the code apparently is (as many of us suspected):

There’s been a lot of focus on the energy & environmental costs of running LLMs. There are also energy & environmental costs to deploying LLM-generated code.

Similarly, there’s a lot of focus on the kickbacks cloud vendors who fund AI get from LLMs renting their servers. There may be a similar kickback from computationally inefficient LLM-generated software renting their servers.

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@inthehands There’s also a financial benefit for Claude (and other agents) to take the long way around to solve a problem because they use more tokens.
@inthehands And because they’re non-deterministic, even when you provide the same context, they will often produce different solutions, so they’re always reinventing the wheel.