GP is not totally ignoring the post he replied to: we have models that are basically 6-months behind closed SOTA models and that we can run in the cloud and we fully know how much these costs to run.

The cat is out of the bag: compute shall keep getting cheaper as it's always been since 60 years or something.

It's always been maintenance that's been the killer and GP is totally right about that.

And if we look at a company like Cloudflare who basically didn't have any serious outage for five years then had five serious outages in six months since they drank the AI kool-aid, we kinda have a first data point on how amazing AI is from a maintenance point of view.

We all know we're generating more lines of underperforming, insecure, probably buggy, code than ever before.

We're in for a wild ride.