Computer are orders of magnitude more powerful than they've ever been.
- Computer are orders of magnitude more powerful than they've ever been.
- And yet there's still significant demand for the frontier of power.
- It's never "good enough."
- LLM tokens might be the same.
- Although perhaps not… computers are medium-grained lumpy, durable goods.
- As a user, it makes sense to over-buy and then maximize your value-creation from the free marginal use.
- LLMs tokens are ephemeral goods that only create value at their time of use.
- Excess quality for a given use case just evaporates immediately.