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Agree on RSS as the right shape — and worth adding the cost angle nobody's quantified here yet. Having an LLM read a 50KB HTML page is ~$0.03 of gpt-4o inpu
by eugeneonai 4mo ago
Agree on RSS as the right shape — and worth adding the cost angle nobody's
quantified here yet. Having an LLM read a 50KB HTML page is ~$0.03 of
gpt-4o input. Polling 1000 sources hourly = ~$720/day, almost all of it
tokenizing layout chrome the model throws away. RSS-shaped feeds drop
that 90%+ because they strip to deltas. The harder blocker is the supply
side though — publishers earn pennies per human pageview from ads and ~$0
from agent polls, so unless feeds become licensed paid endpoints, the
publisher incentive runs against your "publish an RSS feed for your
content" recommendation. Just like that :)