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It's way late and seriously over budget, hard to call that a success.
by hungryhobbit 1mo ago
It's way late and seriously over budget, hard to call that a success.
- rwz 1mo agoWhat are you talking about? What is the budget? Was there ever a deadline? Who ever decided those?
- reducesuffering 1mo ago~3 months start to finish and the price of 1 engineer for a year, to rewrite a critical infra codebase that tens of millions of user software relies on. Truly the goalposts keep moving. This kind of project would've have been 10x the effort and price a few years ago.
- aenis 1mo agoYeah, crucially, a lot of such projects never get greenlit. Claude building stuff means a lot of things that everybody wanted to do, just couldn't allocate the attention or other resources - now get built.
- moljac024 1mo agoIt's likely much closer to that price if you don't calculate with subsidized token pricing.
- reducesuffering 1mo agoOnce a model like Fable/Mythos is trained, that was used for this project, the inference costs are profitable. CapEx vs. OpEx. Every new Zig->Rust port of this caliber using Fable/Mythos costs the standard token price, it's not subsidized. The model already exists for the original CapEx, you can do 1,000 ports of this for standard token pricing.
- internet2000 1mo agoIt's an unconditional success no matter how you slice it.
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- cleaning 1mo agoWhat budget?
- Jcampuzano2 1mo agoThis couldn't be further from the truth. It was if anything severely under budget of you compare it to what it'd normally cost in engineering time.
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