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...btle cinemagraph animation to enchant the visual assets. LLMs make it orders of magnitude cheaper, but it still has a marginal cost. One way to do it is to have it feel open-ended and custom to the user… but subtly direct users to the same paths. ...
...ls of the quality of a software project. Now, LLMs can do those tasks orders of magnitude cheaper, so it's less of a strong signal of project quality than ever before. Arguably, an inverse signal, one of codeslop, where human judgment was only sup...
...that floor. The printing press lowered the Coasian floor by making it orders of magnitude cheaper to produce books. A linear decrease in friction makes more of the power law above the viability waterline. The power-law has a curved shape, so the l...
...wer of the frontier models, it's possible to do inference at multiple orders of magnitude cheaper.[b] Not bullish for the major labs, given that the models are already ludicrously over-capable for most applications.
...LLMs are good enough at many tasks, and their intelligence tokens are orders of magnitude cheaper than humans. Normal mechanistic code has even cheaper intelligence tokens… but the tools by default aren't useful in a given domain.
...uilibrium chonkiness of software was the app. But with software being orders of magnitude cheaper to produce, the equilibrium size of chunks of code will get smaller. Perhaps much smaller.
...te. But now LLMs have the potential to find the next Stuxnet for many orders of magnitude cheaper. Imagine a world where everyone could make their own Stuxnet to sic on their enemies… Infinite software isn't an unalloyed good.
... be used for various attacks. This used to be expensive. LLMs make it orders of magnitude cheaper!
...r through erosion and selective rebuilding. The process of keeping is orders of magnitude cheaper than the process of creating. This is the process by which everything of value emerges.
... of uncertainty. They used to be expensive but now with LLMs they are orders of magnitude cheaper.
When creation gets orders of magnitude cheaper you can curate post facto. When creation is expensive, you have to curate pre facto. Post facto curation means there's a cacophony to sift through, b...
LLMs are human-level common sense[afl] with infinite patience, many orders of magnitude cheaper than real humans. It's impossible for that to not be disruptive. Especially since the technology for GPT4 class quality is already commodity. O3 in p...
...mpounding cost, so nailing down more pieces makes remaining decisions orders of magnitude cheaper. Nail down the most obviously true, inescapable parts first, and work your way down to ever-more debatable points. As you work your way down and get ...
...tc that we apply that lens to everything. When a new key input is now orders of magnitude cheaper, a new paradigm is waiting to be born. During that period where the paradigm is waiting to explode onto the scene, the new low cost thing is already ...
...shed, high-fidelity, and one-size-fits-many. But what if software got orders of magnitude cheaper to make? You could have disposable software. Software too cheap to meter.
...cing a skeptical audience to invest time in them. But now they can be orders of magnitude cheaper when you can ask LLMs to do a lot of the work for you.
...the cost of coordination with an entity inside your org is at least an order of magnitude cheaper than the cost of coordinating with an entity outside your org.