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Nothing factual in this article, only suppositions and possibilities with reference to MSFT getting rid of claude and Doordash CEO comments a week prior, as the title clearly ..suggests.
In 1780, once horse power was way more expensive than a real horse. At least, that’s what my intuition data suggests.
Yeah but at least early industrial machines consistently outperformed humans on a specific task. With LLMs it's still a weird mix of brilliant moments and completely unreliable behavior
Hire competent people, give them tokens. The two axes are complementary, not competing.
Literally, it's exhausting to have people parroting "It's more expensive than humans", complete non-sense, many people lack the ability to extrapolate even a tiny bit it seems like?
Right.

Give incompetent people tokens, and they become 10x better at their incompetence.

The real problem: token overuse triggered the pullback "after internal incentives pushed teams to compete on AI usage." Incentivised to burn money, they burnt too much.
token prices are dropping fast though so this comparison has a short shelf life