alt Hacker News> 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?
> 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.