Comment by btown

The real question is: can you incentivize a non-tokenmaxxing Uber to spend the same amount on AI as they were when tokenmaxxing, just with fewer tokens and higher per-token costs? Even with plateauing improvement in frontier models? I think the answer may be yes.

And part of my reasoning for this is: the only system capable of actually fixing bugs in vibe-created code is an LLM. If we humans couldn't write it without assistance, we certainly won't be able to debug it without assistance. So there's a real stickiness here.

We're signing pacts with demons - we have to, if we want to outcompete the other warlocks - and those pacts are written in the very size of our codebases.