alt Hacker NewsI think a more fair comparison would be that you hired a consulting firm to create a report and give you a summary of it, but you’re charged for the report itself separately from the summary, and you are not allowed to access the unsummarized report.
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ashdksnndck • today at 6:28 AM
It’s normal for consulting firms to charge for inputs like hours of labor, airfare etc.
> but you’re charged for the report itself separately from the summary, and you are not allowed to access the unsummarized report
This analogy works if the LLM provider promises you access to the reasoning tokens, and fails if they don’t.
How is that a more fair comparison? The consulting firm in this case never promised you the interim reports, only the summaries of the reports. They also promised you the final output that the reports led to. You decided that report summaries + final output was worth paying for. You got exactly what you were promised.