alt Hacker News"Spending more on AI than humans" tells you nothing about whether it works. Cost per-output is the metric and by that I've watched startups do worse than last year, just more expensively.
Feels like investor signal: "we're AI-forward, mark us up next round"
I’m so far removed from how that stuff works that it often sounds insane to me. Maybe someone who knows can explain it.
Do the people with money not actually care about making more money? Aren’t they first and foremost concerned with your chances of financial success?
These people can’t possibly be thinking, “Well they say they spent an absolute shit ton on inference… they’re definitely going to be big winners!” and cutting massive checks, right?