AI cost per task: why AI feels pricier as it gets cheaper
Frontier AI runs cost more every year, but at fixed quality AI cost per task is falling about 13x a year. Why both are true, and the rate I'd plan agents on.
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Frontier AI runs cost more every year, but at fixed quality AI cost per task is falling about 13x a year. Why both are true, and the rate I'd plan agents on.
Here's my current AI stack: open source, a dedicated memory system, multi-agent access, spec judges, evals, and as much of the process in code as possible.
A git-owned knowledge base is markdown in a repo you control. A YC launch listed that as a hack. You want a record you can diff, refuse, and take with you.
I set out to build a DTC store almost entirely with AI.