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This is an interesting analysis, but "are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially is?" is a very bad question that this doesn't answer. What's rising
by hyperpape 6mo ago
This is an interesting analysis, but "are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially is?" is a very bad question that this doesn't answer.
What's rising exponentially is the price of the most ambitious thing cutting edge agents can do.
But to answer whether the cost of AI agents is rising in general, you would take a fixed set of problems, and for each of them, ask "once it's solvable, how does the price change?"
For that latter question, there isn't a lot of data in these charts because there aren't enough curves for models of the same family over time, but it does look like there are a number of points where newer models solve the same problems at lower prices. Look at GPT5 vs. the older GPT models--the curve for GPT5 is shifted left.
- simianwords 6mo agoThe cost of models are almost exponentially decreasing with time. The author performs a non sequitur by muddling two concepts of time. They say costs are getting “unsustainable” which is not a conclusion that follows. What is true is that at a given point in time, cost to perform a task is exponentially related to the human time taken. But it does not mean it will remain that way.. far from it.