Comment by storystarling
6 hours ago
The supervisor-worker architecture is standard for distributed systems, but I'm not sure the unit economics make sense yet. Given current latency and inference costs, that specific pattern seems significantly more expensive and slower than a human developer.
They don't make sense yet. It works out very expensive at present. Far too expensive to run as anything other than an experiment.
> The supervisor-worker architecture is standard for distributed systems, but I'm not sure the unit economics make sense yet. ... [T]hat specific pattern seems significantly more expensive and slower than a human developer.
Yeggie very explicitly states that Gas Town is for people who give zero shits about how much money they're forking over to their LLM company. If I remember correctly, he said that he had to get a second entire account because of how much money he was spending.
The better comp is how much gastown would cost if it weren't on subsidized the 200$ per month claude max plans (even if he is using 2 of them)
Fair point. I suspect if you priced that workload out on per-token API costs, it would be completely unviable for a bootstrapped business. The flat-rate subscription is really the only thing making it accessible right now.