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by evmaki 119 days ago
The LLM is not the slot machine. The LLM is the lever of the slot machine, and the slot machine itself is capitalism. Pull the lever, see if it generates a marketable product or moment of virality, get rich if you hit the jackpot. If not, pull again.
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I don't know why you were downvoted. This is the FOMO that encourages agent gambling, automated experimentation in the hopes of accidentally striking digital gold before your peers do. A million monkeys racing 24/7 to create the next Harry Potter first.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, now proofs of concept are a load of tokens a dozen.