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avaertoday at 8:00 AM2 repliesview on HN

I don't know, compute is compute. Arguably making complex software with LLMs isn't all that different from training a model to do a thing. You're throwing a lot of compute at the problem and hoping for a stochastic solution. The distinction will become even blurrier with time.

Though I agree it might be informative to split it by industry sector.


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alexjurkiewicztoday at 8:05 AM

AI training uses wildly more compute than most companies, who are generally building domain specific CRUD apps.

Compare AI costs per-engineer-salary-dollar, because more expensive engineers probably need more expensive AI.

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scrollawaytoday at 8:07 AM

If you’re going to include AI training in costs, you should include education as part of the costs of an engineer …

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