@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I don't think everyone would be rushing to build more expensive frontier models if the current inference business model didn't work.
But if you listen to their rhetoric, they are insistent on the valuation friendly story that the hockey stick continues far into the future.
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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: It's not obvious to me which of these is correct.
Attempts to quantify inference costs in the general media seem to fall victim to overly simplistic cost modeling or to confuse API price for cost:
martinalderson.com/posts/no-it-...
@jmoiron.bsky.social I've seen people very confidently claim two opposing narratives on inference:
* AI inference is in a VC backed burn phase and the real cost of inference requires pricing people won't pay
* AI inference prints money and AI company burn rate is mostly due to training new frontier ...
reposted @bryanl.dev: If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: It's like a war movie in that sense.
I was 16 when I came out and I was easily fooled by its rebellious anti-consumerism into viewing project mayhem as a valiant struggle.
Fully understanding it in my 20s and reckoning with my failure informed how carefully I navigate political...
@jmoiron.bsky.social I didn't expect "agentic AI" to usher in a resurgence of the Unix command line, but it makes sense in hindsight, as composition has more leverage now.
It's also resulted in a rush to poke holes in the walled gardens that have been closed since the death of web2 APIs.
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jmoiron/quantum-skies master 777316c bump version in makefile and have setversion update the Makefile as well
@jmoiron.bsky.social "but it might work for us" tobias funke meme where the first panel says "a beheading strike on the current leadership will result in a favorable regime change"
@jmoiron.bsky.social Caught this PBS segment on an organic Asian vegetable farm in upstate NY, and I need you to know that the farm is called Choy Division.
"Growing up, food felt like the one thing I really had in common with my family" is such a universal child-of-immigrants thing.
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