@raganwald @davey_cakes I've been lucky to work places that (at least at the time) had very clear examples of that. But those places are exceedingly rare, and those turning points are not always externally comprehensible.
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@lcamtuf Reddit too. The larger subreddits consistently are led by engagement bait.
@carlton they're basically not subsidized. The all you can eat coding plans of course have the light users helping pay for the whales, but I'm damn sure AWS is not a charity, and Bezos is not somehow running bedrock at a loss to drum up business. So you can go look at your token costs directly.
@carlton ok I finished reading it. The other problem with it is that it pretty squarely leans into the whole "what if this magically gets 10x more expensive when the VC dries up" which is also fairly obviously wrong. But the conclusion is fine.
@carlton eh. It's the "when you get to something you do know about" effect... nobody builds evaporative cooling AI datacenters, and the breathless articles about it generally all trace back to a single very badly done extrapolative cost estimate that was unreasonable in the first place.
@carlton I stopped reading when it uncritically got to the water trope and boldly leaned in.
@ari well then, I'm not sure why you're talking like that to glyph. He's an independent open source developer who does consulting and has a patreon and doesn't use LLMs and has contributed to a bunch of fundamental internet software you undoubtedly use.
So you kinda sound like an asshole here.
@ari I'm pretty sure you meant to headline my username and not glyph's in that response?
@SpaceLifeForm @ubernostrum this only works if you have no interest in obtaining credit in this country in the future.
@chris_evelyn @mjg59 @greg oh I'll be the very first person to agree that a lot of people are doing incredibly dumb things with it. It's weird, and new, and there are a ton of very enthusiastic, extremely careless users smearing it all over the place. A ton of that is hugely negative.