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logarithmic value appears in 8 chunks across 8 episodes, from 2025-02-24 to 2026-03-09.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 2/24/25 (2025-02-24), with 1 observation on this topic.
Semantically it travels with exponential cost, llms, and dead end, while by chunk count it sits between diminishing return and swarm sifting; its yearly rank moved from #141 in 2025 to #119 in 2026.
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Range2025-02-24 to 2026-03-09Mean1.0 per episodePeak1 on 2025-02-24
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Other people get excited about logarithmic value for exponential cost curves, since they unlock value in the first few plys.
These are Gilded Turds.
Look great to start but look worse the longer the...
Top-down approaches have logarithmic value for exponential cost.
Bottom up / emergent approaches have exponential value for logarithmic cost.
The former create value quickly but then hit a fun...
...it gets smaller and smaller as you go.
Strikingly clear in this visual example.
Logarithmic value, exponential cost.
Diminishing returns.
Did anyone in your tech circles talk about ChatGPT 5.1 last week?
...ntum out of the gate, but sprint towards a dead end.
This is the source of the "logarithmic value / exponential cost" curve I've talked about in the past.
Strength of momentum and height of ceiling are disjoint.
MCP has strong momentum but a low c...
If you just YOLO writing of code, you get logarithmic value for exponential cost.
As you add new features an old thing pops out of place and breaks.
When that happens you know it's a poorly architected system....