Only give models frontier-pushing tasks, jokes dev after anime-head math request
_Stocko_ · x · 2026-10-15
- Author jokes that models should only be assigned tasks that push the frontier, not waste tokens on trivial things.
- The attached image shows a user asking gpt-5-astra to derive the mathematical curves behind an anime girl's head shape for a robot project and to search and download pretty reference images into a ./refs folder; the model replies with a comic panel saying "an exhaustive analysis of the data will take considerable time."
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