Core thesis: LLMs are all-purpose, generic tools. Overkill for most use-cases except a single one: to build more specific, more powerful tools.
If you're after a prototype and asking yourself "can this be automated"? Then ask an LLM to do it. If the LLM can do it, then the LLM can automate it by writing something that's not an LLM.
Instead of boiling the oceans just to have OpenClaw or whatever give you a summary of HN articles you might find interesting every morning, ask an LLM to write you a script/tool to do that every morning and slap it in a cronjob on a raspberry pi. A fraction of the cost, maximum efficiency.
Use the LLM to make itself redundant.
"Push the ghost out of the machine" - Yagmur Karakok
Don't hire a Senior software engineer to summarize newspapers for you forever.
Contract a Senior software engineer for one day to automate itself out of a job.
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