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LLMs are like cars in one aspect
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this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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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.
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- 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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A dude going “yeah bro I’m like a thousand times faster bro I get a day’s worth of work done in ten seconds bro” is the opposite of concrete lol.
And then for details he mumbles about “calendars bro and uh, meetings! It’s all connected bro!”
There have been case studies about this. Your buddy, like many thousands of other people, is simply delusional regarding the perceived efficiency gains. People whose productivity literally decreases, measurably, often report that they have more than doubled their productivity.
Why not send them over? I mean they get their whole year’s worth of work done by the second week of January, right? Even with ten or fifteen jobs they should have tons of free time yes? Or is their financial reality, for some unknown reason, not in line with their enormous head turning productivity?
Rather, it's more like this is their new normal (he says he's basically starving for free time and that that's how much he's overworked); efficiency is punished with more work, as I'm sure you well know... Anyway, I do look forward to the crash...