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> By mid-August, the median researcher was integrating agents daily into their work, using more than $600 per day of inference at API prices.

There is a lot of talk about AI replacing humans, but how is this sustainable?

1) That's maybe $180,000 per year, so much less than median OpenAI employee wages.

2) OpenAI doesn't pay API prices.

3) Compute costs are likely already their biggest expense, dwarfing wages.

4) There are non-monetary limits on how many qualified people OpenAI can hire for these roles.