Developer Amusingly Finds Optimal "Model" for Hardware: Self-Typing at Full Precision

Core summary

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A developer humorously shared their experience of getting bored optimizing local LLMs and instead created a "tps counter" for their own typing, achieving around 2 tokens per second, implying that the human brain remains a highly efficient, full-precision "model" for some tasks.

Impact & opportunity

What this could mean

This lighthearted reflection serves as a reminder to balance AI capabilities with human efficiency and consider hybrid approaches where human input complements or substitutes AI for specific, resource-intensive tasks.