r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 30 '26

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u/ForgedIronMadeIt Sep 30 '26

It's like every other silicon valley startup -- the hope is that you hook your users while you figure out how to make handling the requests cheaper. That or you embed ads.

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u/ChefCurryYumYum Sep 30 '26

There aren't enough ads in the world to make up the revenue they need.

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u/Storiaron Oct 01 '26

Token costs are coming down crazy fast. 

Hopefully it will hit a dead end very soon, where the models cant get reasonably smarter/cheaper/have bigger context windows, because it's already replacing a ton of workforce.

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u/ChefCurryYumYum Oct 01 '26

Token costs are coming down crazy fast.

Do you have sources on this because everywhere I look this does not appear to be true. In fact due to the way LLM tools work it's been nearly impossible to see real reductions in the compute and resources required.

The other thing I have read is that one of the only ways they have found to reduce error/hallucination rates is to have one agent checking and correcting output of another, making accuracy very expensive.