Very interesting. At Seedium, we also use AI to speed up development tasks, and it shows good results. We have cases when AI integration led to 2-3x faster delivery. I believe it depends on your experience. If you know what you're doing, AI will help you do it better.
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It always makes me laugh when people say this, because its so utterly pointless. That percentage assumes literally no other costs exist besides the direct inference cost. Even if they quit trying to make better models today, there are a mountain of recurring costs that will never go away. Retraining the models with new data, replacing/upgrading old hardware, enormous infrastructure costs related to maintaining the ac…
Anthropic. Listen carefully to Dario’s public statements; you could just pull his most recent Dwarkesh interview for example - worth a listen in any event. He is guilty of an engineer’s use of the word profit when he says “we never made a profit.” But he always follows up with the real story — “every model we trained has returned 2-4x in free cashflow, counting R&D and inference” You could say “the industry is engage…
How do you reconcile this with Ed Zitron's reporting that just the AWS bill in 2024/2025 was more than their entire revenue?
https://www.wheresyoured.at/costs/#how-much-did-anthropic-an...