Comment by yjftsjthsd-h
4 hours ago
>This port cost over 25k in opus/fable tokens for debugging and JIT research
> This was just a fun experiment to push the boundaries of WebAssembly
I'm a huge fan of the project, but I have to ask. If spending $25k is a "fun experiment", where exactly is your threshold for serious work?
Was it really $25k, or was it done though subscriptions with a reported cost of $25k?
I'm on the openai $100 sub and frequently my codexbar will show $250 usage in a day. I think it probably doesn't have access to the cached token share too, which probably inflates that a lot.
The latter
This naturally begs the question, would a human be willing to do the same thing for $25k, and how long would that take?
I imagine it is 25k tokens not dollars
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927724 seems to say dollars? Although yes the phrasing could be clearer in the post
You can't do anything for 25k tokens; I've spent 100m today and the day isn't out yet.
I think the system prompt is bigger than that.
That's standard token usage for /init
25k tokens is a few turns