"AI doesn't rent cores. AI generates tokens and they sell tokens."
Jensen Huang, in Taiwan with Lex Fridman last week. the full thought was about chip architecture: X86 was shaped for the dollars-per-core rental economy. AI chips are shaped for token generation. same silicon dies, different purpose, different economics.
my Claude bill was $12,840 last month. 73% of the spend was yes-or-no decisions.
Claude is shaped for prose. my calls were shaped for picker.
wrong-shape compute running the wrong economics underneath me. same bug Jensen names at the chip layer, one layer up.
migrating those calls to the right-shape model took 11 days.
new bill: $347. 97% off.
the shape of the tool must match the shape of the work.
the 11-day playbook and the three subsystems that silently broke:
https://t.co/0SXQaz6wwS
@issatheblows having one agent reverse engineer the feature and another rebuild it from the spec is a pretty clever way to test how much they actually understand
"i'm one of the few people at OpenAI who actually hates on ChatGPT." - Diego Almeida, co-author of ChatGPT, now at TypeSafe (Jev)
the man who built it validates the thesis of my $12,840 migration.
the diff below.
https://t.co/9ZaGUyYG7o
"at what point are we reinventing databases from first principles with agents?"
anthropic's own engineer:
"those things should just be done in a deterministic way. no need to reinvent the wheel."
73% of my claude bill was that mistake. migration diff below.
https://t.co/9ZaGUyYG7o