alt Hacker News> This is expensive—the pelican cost 25 cents!
Engineers get unbelievably silly about evaluating costs of things.
"The tokens are so expensive!" Oh my sweet child, how much would even the least capable human effort cost? This is what the executives properly understand that the programmers don't.
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bakugo • today at 4:39 PM
Would anyone pay a human to create an SVG of a pelican riding a bike?
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they're comparing to similar capability llm models, not humans. If one dishwasher does job at similar quality as another dishwasher, but using 30% more water and energy, you wouldn't compare to how much it costs human to do the same work, it would make no sense.