2026-02-01 18:39:48

In my mind I'm combining thoughts from the excellent Technology Connections video on solar power (https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM) with my own thoughts about LLMs.

And I have realised that LLM tokens are oil: you buy them, and you burn them. You can only use them once. Then they are gone.

This makes it technology that is only really beneficial to the people who “drill" for the tokens.

It does not make sense. We become reliant on LLM tokens at our own peril.

Spend money on something that lasts!