alt Hacker NewsAs models train up the intelligence ladder, many common tasks will hit fully diminished returns, and instead it'll just get progressively cheaper to do that task. But the tasks that AI is capable of doing are also expanding. I'm not sure 'Some tasks don't require the peak of the frontier' is worth worrying about, from an AI finance perspective.
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Exactly; so far, we've only replaced the need to design algorithms and hand-write code; what if we apply the same effort towards the skill needed for system architecture, project management, and the rest of the SDLC? Or even outside of software!
Right now, it feels like all of that is today where coding was a year or two ago, and we're on the cusp of some massive improvements outside of coding. It'll be interesting to see what these companies decide to automate next.
It’s worth considering for companies paying API prices, and not relying on a subscription quota
Yes. I use Opus for tasks that Sonnet could probably handle, but I'm not hitting my quota. Whatever minor incremental gain is "worth it", since marginal cost is zero.
Even now, I use Fable as the planner and coordinator, with it farming out to agents. I don't hit my Fable limits either.
Which means I could accomplish more, but these are side projects so I don't need 30x productivity. Still, claude is constantly churning away at something.