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> You give it a text to be translated ... and then sends that draft back to the three models for several rounds of revision, checking, and polishing. Interesti
by jedberg 1y ago
> You give it a text to be translated ... and then sends that draft back to the three models for several rounds of revision, checking, and polishing.
Interesting. Curious if you modeled the cost of that single translation with the multiple LLM calls and how that compares to a human.
- tkgally 1y agoI had Claude Code write a module that monitored the incoming and outcoming token counts and display the accumulated costs. A Japanese-to-English translation that yielded about a thousand words in English cost around US$0.40. I didn't double-check the module's arithmetic, but it seems to have been in the ballpark, as my total API costs for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google yesterday--when I was testing this system repeatedly--came to about eight dollars. A human translator would charge many, many times more.