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> By mid-August, the median researcher was integrating agents daily into their work, using more than $600 per day of inference at API prices. There is a lot of
by RMPR 27d ago
> By mid-August, the median researcher was integrating agents daily into their work, using more than $600 per day of inference at API prices.
There is a lot of talk about AI replacing humans, but how is this sustainable?
- thomasahle 27d ago1) That's maybe $180,000 per year, so much less than median OpenAI employee wages. 2) OpenAI doesn't pay API prices. 3) Compute costs are likely already their biggest expense, dwarfing wages.
- jsnell 26d ago4) There are non-monetary limits on how many qualified people OpenAI can hire for these roles.