> Opus went off for ~2 hours and wrote 5500 lines of code that (procedurally) rendered the story. > it's an example where we go from "no one would ever do this

> Opus went off for ~2 hours and wrote 5500 lines of code that (procedurally) rendered the story. > it's an example where we go from "no one would ever do this" to "sure, why not, it's ~free". How is two hours worth of token generation free? With tech revolutions things get cheaper/faster/better/doable, but there’s still real world limits. The advent of railroads made it feasible for the average person to cross the country, but it still cost a lot of time and resources. People weren’t crossing the country every weekend for fun just because it was now doable. Why do we treat LLMs as ~free when we are generating things that weren’t doable before but have to invest more money than the Apollo program to build AI data centers let alone account for the operating costs?