Way Enough

You’re not even trying to be clever. You’re just solving tiny problems. Making the machine do what it should have done in the first place. And then something happens. You cross a threshold. You look at your tools, your environment, your operating system—even your editor—and suddenly everything is fair game.

This fear of 'wasting' a meal, or an entire trip, ironically leads people to create exactly what they're trying to avoid, not literally wasted experiences, but stressful, anxious, and ultimately unfulfilling vacations, where you run around trying to maximize so much, you miss the part where you stop, relax, take stuff in, and live.

To that end, I never use ChatGPT.com or other normal-person frontends for accessing LLMs because they are harder to control. Instead, I typically access the backend UIs provided by each LLM service, which serve as a light wrapper over the API functionality which also makes it easy to port to code if necessary.