First of all I don’t live in a neighbourhood with something equivalent of a HOA, but we do have an organisational unit that involves the group of 6 homes where I live in.
We had a meeting regarding the repair of a shared drain pipe following an inspection we had earlier this year, the camera inspection had a cost of €120 that was equally divided among 6 households, so €20 each, nice and easy.
After getting the quote for the repairs, one of our neighbours asked chatgpt to split the bill, €1500 divided by 6.
edit: paraphrasing, he proudly said "I asked chatgpt and 1500/6 is 250”
Do you really need to ask an LLM to divide two numbers? something the cheapest calculator can do instantly, or better yet, something you can easily do I your head?
Because you’re trashing the environment, wasting compute cycles, unnecessarily transferring data, wasting bandwidth (however small), etc?
Just use the calculator app bro.
If a room of >6 people can’t work out 1500/6 in their heads, they don’t deserve to have their drain fixed.
Or do some mental math. It’s not a particularly hard one to do.
Some people will do anything to prevent having to do math. Part of my job includes counting tally marks from a sheet and entering it into a file. My coworkers use click-counters (which we all have because we use them for other tasks) and will sit there clicking the thing over and over again just to write down the final number. Meanwhile, I scan the page and use mental math to quickly come to an answer. I count twice to be sure, and I’m still done quicker than the click-counters.
It’s funny, when I started I was given a click-counter and told I could use it for this task. I responded that I’d get too hung up thinking I accidentally clicked it too many or too few times, and would probably end up in a loop clicking and resetting the thing over and again because of it. They’re tally marks, they’re not complicated, it’s much easier to just count them in my head than introduce a tool that will provide a new margin of error.