> would burn £2.5k worth of tokens over the course of a few hours

details please, if it's interesting

Evaluation loops do this easily. You have to run hundreds of reasoning jobs in parallel and very quickly you can torch thousands of dollars.

Yeah, it was basically this, and running a whole lot of agents concurrently to churn through the dataset faster.

Yup, run multiple agents on expensive model in loop via API.

You can do it if your employer has endless pockets.

Example: $30/1M input tokens (I don’t count output or cache, for simplification), you have several daily agents for everything => 3M tokens daily per agent * 10 agents ~> $900/day => $328k/year (API spending)

Any 3D work in blender can burn that easily. Add video editing to that mix in any capacity.

we will continue to move the goalpost. indefinitely .. ?

great

from the internet

Can't. Clouflare is MitM-ing large parts of the internet and denying service with their shitty captachas.

Treat yourself to this gorgeous podcast episode, "The Woods" from The Memory Palace.

https://thememorypalace.us/the-woods/

The red shock of feathers on the heads of the males,

the bright white that spilled down the sides of the long throat to pool in the center of the wide wings,

hemmed in by borders that looked jet black in pictures,

but in real life were something other.

A glinting thing.

A blue-purple.

A night sky.

On the right night.

It's one of the craziest, most interesting books i've read on the mind. He makes a much stronger argument than can be summarized in a comment. He takes you on a wild journey you are surprisingly ill-equipped for.

And as this complexity develops, there is the first unsureness, the first need for personal gods to intercede with the higher gods, who seem to be receding into the heavens where in one brief millennium they will have disappeared.

"owes"