I have a suite or tools ive built for myself on top of the openrouter api for very specific tasks. Press button amd LLM does (one) useful thing, not press button and let LLM run tool calls in a loop for 5 minutes and hope it does things in the correct order.

If multiple tools need to be called to do a useful thing, I will chain those together deterministically in my code. This is much more reliable as I can check the output of A before proceeding to task B or C, also its more time and token efficient. Agentic loops are a huge scam.

Only redditors with Dunning-Kruger would say something like this.

I reccomend the podcast Machine Learning Street Talk, you'll find plenty of machine learning PhDs who are also neuroscientists that are completely mystified by the brain, how it works and what intelligence is. The people at the forefront of nueroscience definately aren't reducing human intelligence and experience to "signal processing", or whatever you think it is.

I agree with you, there's a way to use them responsibly like your router anology, I just think most aren't doing this correctly and its a slippery slope. I'll contend that you probably have used them responsibly in your example.

Congrats, but you're in the 0.0001% thats not just frying their brains, fapping to their local models or doing various magic tricks like a toddler entertained by playing with velcro.

At the end of the day you lost an opportunity to improve yourself and excercise your brain, maybe the opportunity cost is worth it idk, but Im going to keep taking things slow.

Handmade swiss watches > mass manufactured immitations. Handmade clothes > walmart clothes.

You are going off vibes alone, this is easily verified, please go verify.

What makes you think they have zero reason to subsidize, because the providers aren't a household names you assume they wouldn't operate at a loss? Whats your logic here? You make no sense.

I'm much more agreeable with that type of LLM workflow. Running "agents" with monolithic "harness" for long time horizon tasks seems wasteful, unecessary but probably super appealing to lazy people.

If I think an LLM is good for something I create well defined, very deterministic "middleware" for that purpose on top of Openrouter.

There are no shortcuts in life and its just expensive text autocomplete.

"Lets spin up $750k in GPUs full throttle to scrape a web page with my $200.00 CC subscription."

Everyone is delusional.

I like thinking, solving problems and typing out code myself. Im going to keep putting tons of care into my craft and I promise I'll have more impact than the guy running 3 agents to build the 500th version of some web concept.

Rolex has a much bigger impact on the world than white label mass manufacturers in China.