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elephanlemontoday at 3:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

IMO we are currently in the ENIAC era of LLMs. Perhaps there will be a brief moment where things get worse, but long term the cost of these things will go way down.


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pier25today at 3:30 PM

Cost will probably go down but nobody knows when or how. It might take 10 years for all we know as training costs have only been rising.

A huge difference is early computers were not subsidized. It took decades until most people could afford to own a computer at home.

croestoday at 3:59 PM

Or we are in the early Netflix era where profit wasn’t as important as customer growth.