Comment on Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation

unnamed1@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Per-token costs are down, but you need more tokens; overall costs are up.

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  • Jacob_Mandarin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah they are trying to add more and more context and allow bigger and bigger requests.

    Cost per request is probably still going up. On top of there being more and more requests.

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    • unnamed1@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You are probably right. This is basically what capitalism dictates. But considering API usage at least the context is in the developers control. Vibe coding is becoming pretty hungry though :D

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