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The economics of it is what's the problem, not the power of LLMs.
by checker659 11mo ago
The economics of it is what's the problem, not the power of LLMs.
- aurareturn 11mo agoSo tell us the economics of it? The vast majority of AI doomers in the mass media have never used tools like v0 or Cursor. How would they know that AI is overvalued?
- checker659 11mo agoAre the companies making a profit on every prompt I give it (factoring in the cost of upgrading GPUs every year or two)?
- aurareturn 11mo agoAccording to OpenAI, yes. They're "very profitable" on inference. It is the training and capex (driven by competition) that is driving loss.
- PessimalDecimal 11mo agohttps://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/ offers a different point of view on OAI's profitability on inference.
- aurareturn 11mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45050415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45050415
- checker659 11mo agoBut isn't that their "moat"? If the moat is the source of losses, then yes, they're operating at a huge loss.
- boxedemp 11mo agoThey've got us addicted. They're going to squeeze us eventually. I know my company don't stop using agent driven development. It's increased our velocity too much.
- jennyholzer 11mo agoi got off that shit two years ago. you're a victim, i am not.
- checker659 11mo agoYou're right. But I easily round robin between Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini every day without noticing any friction whatsoever.
- willis936 11mo agoAI doomers are AI believers. You're referring to AI skeptics.