Comment by ifwinterco

I'm not in the AI sceptic camp (LLMs can be useful for some tasks, and I use them often), but this is the big issue at the moment.

In order for agentic AI to replace (for example) a software engineer, we need a big step up in capability, around an order of magnitude. These chain of thought models do get a bit closer to that, although in my opinion we're still a way away.

However, at the same time we need about an order of magnitude decrease in price. These models are expensive even at the current price tokens are sold at which seems to be below the actual cost. And these massive CoT models are taking us in completely the wrong direction in terms of cost