alt Hacker NewsGreat to see such write ups in particular with money.
At least 2 things the random LinkedIn post will ignore, on purpose or not :
- price today remains low (even though they might feel higher than before), Uber is the business model, no secret there, it's a VC classic
- $150 spent by an expert, a software engineer with significant practical knowledge in AI, is not equivalent to the exact same amount spent by a novice.
Yet now that a number is out, you bet it will be used. Expect alarmist posts tomorrow morning in your feed claiming building software is now as cheap as diner at the restaurant.
It's also about variance in the number.
Expert software engineers will still accidentally burn $500 or $5000 on tasks that don't work, or are not efficient. Amateurs will accidentally spend $100 to get something great.
So part of the change is a change in the risk structure of using frontier models. Before, you'd burn your quota; now, you can burn uncapped (less-capped) money.