Post #2902714
2026-04-29 00:07 UTC
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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2026-04-29 03:48
Three things here: - right nowthey're basically discovering what are real uses and what's frivolous non-value add uses. - at least as used for software development, the past 12 months didn't get slightly better, it got dramatically night to day better. - simultaneously, some pretty significant advances have been made at reducing costs of delivering value. I think this is hitting hardest in basic chatbot areas, getting the simple answers cheaper - in programming not as clearly, yeah it's getting the simple answers cheaper there too, but it's also succeeding at getting much more complex answers that just weren't possible even a few months ago - those answers cost more, but they're also worth more... will be interesting to see where this all shakes out. Yeah, they are running loss leader stuff, yeah it's going to go up in price when they figure out what its worth to people, because things aren't priced at what they cost to make or deliver, things are priced at what people are willing to pay. The players with the deep pockets are jockeying for control of future markets, they're investing their existing wealth in future power. Let's hope the winners are slightly less ghoulish than our Oil barons.
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@ellen.kimble@piefed.social 2026-04-29 04:53
The meat you eat has more of an impact on the environment than electricity from AI usage