Post #3839714
2026-07-15 17:24 UTC
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems at the same time things could end up more like the spreadsheet, replacing a lot of the need for programmers for mostly "trivial" programs or disposable calculations
but uh yeah i don't think any of us is ready for the tidal wave of programs we wish were still written in excel
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-07-15 17:57
@tef@mastodon.social @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems My intuition is that right now the models only "work" at a level of token spend & constant training that is economically unviable. It would be like if you had to burn a kilogram of solid diamond to produce a "cheap" digital watch, on the assumption that diamond would get cheaper. And yeah, maybe the truth is somewhere between the boosters "100x cheaper inference every year" and the skeptics "TCO isn't going down, ROI is zero" but I think it's closer to the latter than the former