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perching_aixtoday at 3:05 PM1 replyview on HN

Sounds like a variation on the induced demand principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

Related:

- Parkinson's law: "Work expands to fill the available time." https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Parkinson%27s_Law

- Lewis–Mogridge position: "Traffic expands to meet the available road space." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%E2%80%93Mogridge_positio...

And I pretty much just plain agree, this is exactly what will happen.

I don't think there's anything wrong with it (in isolation) either, though I do already find myself pointing out that we're misusing LLMs at work sometimes (most notably, a recent mini project could have been a jinja template - and it did become one thanks to me pushing back on this). Abundance is one thing, waste and misuse is another.


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benatoday at 3:42 PM

Also Jevon's Paradox: the more efficient a system becomes, the more it gets used, making it use more resources rather than less.