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What I see is that I have to read a bunch of stuff and go through a bunch of hassle to save money when the root of it is that if I tell an AI to do work on a task while I'm busy with something else and come back later I've doubled my cost because the cache expires too quickly?

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As a driver I want to spend the majority of the day optimizing my truck's gasoline usage so that I can focus on optimizing my productivity for an outcome I am too far disconnected from to care about anymore.

The AI is so super intelligent that it can't optimize itself and instead burns through tokens needlessly. The people programming the AI are so good that they can write long winded articles about how to optimize their AI but can't get the AI to do these things by default.

It's all so tiring. I care less and less about Claude every single day because of the usage caps and the constant optimizing that has to be done. The whole point of AI was to get past this type of bullshit. They've failed miserably at their jobs.

Three years ago, a computer that can write working C++ on the first try would have been considered to be a miracle. It's amazing how quickly the goalposts move.

Dario with his "country of geniuses in a datacenter" talk is pretty instrumental in accelerating that

I mean `printf("printf(\"Hello World!\\n\")");`, so...

Fail: Bad/legacy C library used. An LLM won't have generated C code if asked for C++.

AI has created a new tedious category of work: managing the AI itself.

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