OpenAI's Foundry leaked pricing says a lot

Nah, the new ones can just be called Xllms.

Then we can just keep adding Xs every generation.

>Never been in the military I’m guessing… No, I haven't but a lot of my family and friends have. I do understand though, my great uncle Don used to make my dad and uncle move a cord of wood to one side of the fence one day, and then the next day he'd say "what'dya do that for? Move it back!" then wink at his wife. As a Norwegian Lutheran immigrant, the prevailing attitude was "We can't let those boys have idle hands", and they all went along with it. Don came over and landed in Idaho where he found work as a lumberjack. He got paid based on his output and took it upon himself to chop down a whole forest by hand, as legend goes. Anyway, the dude went hard, made a ton of money, and was able to use that to own a bunch of successful businesses and stuff. He wasn't going to let those kids miss out.

All that said, and while I see its importance, I was saying 'important' work to refer to things that wouldn't be if the person didn't do it themselves. Like if I'm being trained to write, it wouldn't have much value at all unless I was the one doing the writing. At the end of the day, it never mattered where the logs were.

I'm coming from a place where it really doesn't matter to me or my team as to what tools, techniques, or languages are used, so long as it solves we're all okay with owning the results of that approach. It is absolutely unimportant to bash your head against the wall to solve some concurrency lock issue, not when you haven't shipped, not when your infra is already built for parallelism. But let's say that you need a lock for business logic to work, synchronous transactions aren't viable. When something (such as concurrency) does matter, the business still doesn't care how its implemented. It is important that it implements the business logic correctly, consistently, and can evolve with the business' priorities in a way that future engineers are able to implement them safely, even promptly. Assuming all stands of Quality are met or exceeded, it is irrational for me and unfair for the business to reject it. IDGAFF if it came from a CoPilot/ChatGPT response, offshore salary triage, or some other 'crime against society' that I haven't heard of. If an engineer isn't handing in quality work, then we need to dig into why that's happening. Its usually not because of a tool.