Comment by austin-cheney

Its a misunderstanding of costs. Its the same misunderstanding of thermodynamics applied to dieting. Inputs do not equal outputs, or even scaled outputs. In any dynamic system there are costs to storage and costs to processing. This is how you can increase your calorie intake and still rapidly lose weight, yes, I have lost 30 pounds that way.

In the case of LLMs the only way LLM use becomes profitable is if this condition are achieved:

    processing + storage + input + validation + maintenance < manual output + manual support

If you want to see a 10x savings then multiply the cost of manual output by 10. While LLM profit is achievable in some scenarios a t0x improvement in most scenarios is highly improbable.