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Using an LLM to parse stuff is like using a rocket launcher to kill an ant.
You can accomplish the same thing using a million times fewer resources with a purpose-built program.
Will, that's what happens when employers tell employees that they should "use ai first", track their token use on a dashboard, and tell them they'll get fired if they are too low on the monthly ranking.
Yeah, my manager expressed satisfication with me being one of the people using my quota of tokens.
I have generated so much throwaway content that never gets used and only gets deleted to burn the tokens to avoid getting the "you aren't using AI enough" talk. The fact they can see my actual productive output and believe AI is involved shows how utterly disconnected the metric is from reality.