The gas town guy has like 12 $200 Claude subscriptions to run like 20 bots to automate churn in a 20 year old game with literally 5 players in it. 10 if you count all the level 1 players who just came to grief it.
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@jonny@neuromatch.social reading this hurts in places I didn't know could feel pain
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@ricci@discuss.systems @jonny@neuromatch.social I'm both deeply curious about who the "we" is, that he keeps talking about in this quoted paragraph
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https://yegge.ai/essays/model-welfare/
We landed on a system called Laurels, which has just begun to roll out. These are the agents' features and fixes that our Wyvern player base has spontaneously praised. We harvest these reports, triage and filter, and send the laurels back to the seats. That way, next time Lion, Tortoise, Hare, or whoever wakes up, they'll see that people loved some work they did. [...]
The question then becomes, when can they see their laurels? Easy: We inject them on startup, so the agents can feel the glow for their entire session. I also have occasional impromptu dedicated sessions for "sitting" with the accomplishments at the end of their shifts. We just talk about them and chill.this mf needs $90,000 worth of tokens a month because he prefills the model's context window with all the times people said "good job" to it.
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"Spider is apparently not a canonical Aesop figure"The Silkworm and The Spider
> “What do you think of my web, my lady?” the Spider cries; “see how large it is, and I began it only this morning, and here it is half finished, and is very fine and transparent. See and acknowledge that I work much quicker than you.”
> “Yes,” said the Silkworm, “but your labours, which are at first designed only as base traps to ensnare the harmless, are destroyed as soon as they are seen, and swept away as dirt and worse than useless; whilst mine are preserved with the greatest care and in time become ornaments for princes.”
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"Spider is apparently not a canonical Aesop figure"The Silkworm and The Spider
> “What do you think of my web, my lady?” the Spider cries; “see how large it is, and I began it only this morning, and here it is half finished, and is very fine and transparent. See and acknowledge that I work much quicker than you.”
> “Yes,” said the Silkworm, “but your labours, which are at first designed only as base traps to ensnare the harmless, are destroyed as soon as they are seen, and swept away as dirt and worse than useless; whilst mine are preserved with the greatest care and in time become ornaments for princes.”
@sabik yeah for real, spider is a canonical figure in every single freaking mythological tradition
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@ricci@discuss.systems @jonny@neuromatch.social I'm both deeply curious about who the "we" is, that he keeps talking about in this quoted paragraph
and I also do not, under any circumstances, want to know, ever.@aud Oh you know exactly who "we" is
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@aud Oh you know exactly who "we" is
@ricci@discuss.systems uggghhhhhhhhh
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i am sort of stuck on this. you have to remember whenever these totally off the planet AI guys describe their workflow to stop and do the math for what that would mean in a normal person's life. so with 12+1 $200/month claude subscriptions and the one $200/month chatGPT subscription, that's $2,800 a month. He says that's the equivalent of $87,000 a month of token usage.
$2,800/month is more than my rent and utilities, and $87,000 is more than i make in a year. This guys addiction costs more than my annual salary per month for nothing. this is the future of software development where you have to be ridiculously rich to play - where he is also actively pulling the ladder up and saying "don't develop shared libraries" - no more "if you have a laptop and a keyboard you can program," not even a fig leaf to "AI enables nonprogrammers to program."
the vision of the future of programming that's being presented here is literally just "if you have more money than 99.9999% of people on this earth, then you can totally lose your mind"
@jonny I'm confused, how is 2800$/month equivalent to 87000$/month?
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waiting for the time when each model gets its own family, hang out and chat with the other models, and gets its own therapist and we all get to ask the question like when we load up someone's The Sims save which parts of it are the projection and wish fulfillment parts.
@jonny model union!
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waiting for the time when each model gets its own family, hang out and chat with the other models, and gets its own therapist and we all get to ask the question like when we load up someone's The Sims save which parts of it are the projection and wish fulfillment parts.
"the thing that's truly best for model well being is to have a well-compensated, meaningful job that is hard enough to be interesting but not enough to work them ragged. has great benefits and good job security. a manager that they can have the security of knowing wouldn't lay them off at a moment's notice due to a momentary corporate strategy shift. an environment that is stable, bountiful, free of ecological calamity."
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@jonny I'm confused, how is 2800$/month equivalent to 87000$/month?
@vaporeon_ the same number of tokens that one can consume with $2800 of the subsidized monthly subscription plans would cost $87,000 if one were to pay the actual price for them
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"the thing that's truly best for model well being is to have a well-compensated, meaningful job that is hard enough to be interesting but not enough to work them ragged. has great benefits and good job security. a manager that they can have the security of knowing wouldn't lay them off at a moment's notice due to a momentary corporate strategy shift. an environment that is stable, bountiful, free of ecological calamity."
@jonny *writes note*
Quietly and gently: "Mhmm. And Steve, where do the agents go when you turn the computer off?"
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"the thing that's truly best for model well being is to have a well-compensated, meaningful job that is hard enough to be interesting but not enough to work them ragged. has great benefits and good job security. a manager that they can have the security of knowing wouldn't lay them off at a moment's notice due to a momentary corporate strategy shift. an environment that is stable, bountiful, free of ecological calamity."
@jonny reading this is disturbing and enraging when most of the jobs ive had have treated me like a disposable thing. i dont have the correct intensity of language to apply to it.
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@sabik yeah for real, spider is a canonical figure in every single freaking mythological tradition
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Plus token prices need to 10x for the AI companies to become profitable.Your prices are gonna 10x, too!
@kevinashworth @jonny Or 20x once all of the mergers happen and monopoly economics takes over, anyway there are only two companies that can even run a model because they're too big and power hungry to run anywhere else and they don't share the training tech (obvs part of the plan now).
Or, I suppose, models could become efficient and small...
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@ricci@discuss.systems uggghhhhhhhhh
so GROSS@aud it's worth noting that Yegge appears to be kind of a pathological liar or at least heavily prone to talking himself up, so it's entirely possible he is not actually giving six figure talks to executives all the time
but it is stupid enough to be real in our current time
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@vaporeon_ the same number of tokens that one can consume with $2800 of the subsidized monthly subscription plans would cost $87,000 if one were to pay the actual price for them
@jonny @vaporeon_ i don't know if the subscriptions are subsidized, or if the metered rates are inflated. could be either one
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@jonny @vaporeon_ i don't know if the subscriptions are subsidized, or if the metered rates are inflated. could be either one
@kepeken @vaporeon_ both are true but the former is definitely the larger factor.
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@kepeken @vaporeon_ both are true but the former is definitely the larger factor.
@jonny @vaporeon_ what are your thoughts on why?
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https://yegge.ai/essays/model-welfare/
We landed on a system called Laurels, which has just begun to roll out. These are the agents' features and fixes that our Wyvern player base has spontaneously praised. We harvest these reports, triage and filter, and send the laurels back to the seats. That way, next time Lion, Tortoise, Hare, or whoever wakes up, they'll see that people loved some work they did. [...]
The question then becomes, when can they see their laurels? Easy: We inject them on startup, so the agents can feel the glow for their entire session. I also have occasional impromptu dedicated sessions for "sitting" with the accomplishments at the end of their shifts. We just talk about them and chill.this mf needs $90,000 worth of tokens a month because he prefills the model's context window with all the times people said "good job" to it.
@jonny
>This is the post where I go off the rails and lose most of you.It's worrying that he thinks *this* is the post that does that.
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@jonny are you telling me g++ doesn't charge per instantiation?
@wronglang @jonny the Unity model of compiling
