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People making decisions. Pay me 8x to get 10x, great. Pay me 8x to get 3x, nope.
by diffeomorphism 3mo ago
People making decisions.
Pay me 8x to get 10x, great.
Pay me 8x to get 3x, nope.
- KptMarchewa 3mo agoI have not seen reasonable claims that people are paying 8x the salary of a SWE to get those 2-3x results.
- richiebful1 3mo agoDirectionally, that's why companies are getting rid of token leaderboards and imposing limits on LLM costs. There's a diminishing marginal return to tokens
- KptMarchewa 3mo agoThat's true and it's also very easy to game. There is increase in (not only perceived) value _somewhere_ - IMO depends on the organizational culture. At my work I found going over 100$ on OpenAI/Anthropic's API pricing does not produce any meaningful additional output. It might be much different in different companies.