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This is a constantly repeated conspiracy theory and is not true at all. The api costs do increase but aggregate costs per task decrease. The question is: do peo
by simianwords 4mo ago
This is a constantly repeated conspiracy theory and is not true at all. The api costs do increase but aggregate costs per task decrease. The question is: do people need lower intelligence models at all? The answer is a resounding NO!
How many people do you see using haiku or sonnet? I see very few and most people default to the latest model and just play with thinking effort. I think three layers are good enough and supporting more is not a good UX.
- gonzalohm 4mo agoDo I need the most intelligent model to generate boilerplate code, which is my main usage for AI? Resounding No. For my use case a model from a year ago is good enough
- unknownfuture 4mo agoI... use them all the time: plan with a more advanced model, build with a cheaper one. Anthropic literally packages a metamodel (opusplan) for that pattern. Also: calling the SV blitzscaling strategy of using VC money to fund loss leader products with the goal of building a monopoly via dumping a conspiracy is quite the position given there's entire books written in the topic...
- phainopepla2 4mo agoAre you only considering coding use cases? Many enterprise use cases, such as simple data extraction, are well served by cheaper models.