Comment by BobbyJo
2 hours ago
I was thinking about this earlier today and I came to the following question:
If you had a model 10x as capable as the best model out today, but it cost 100x more, would there be a market, and, if so, how big?
I think there would be a market and I think it would be large.
So, I agree.
Many people would, and you'll find that they're building crappy webapps where you dont need SoTA. Like seriously who needs these frontier models?
Unless you're doing some extermely difficult post-grad lvl research, you do not need a 100x PhD research assistant, especially not for whatever silly SaaS product most people are building.
There's people at my job that get so much more done than everyone else using Fable/Opus/Astra. and all they use is the fastest cheapest models. I'd say the people who are using sota models for everything are doing it just because they prefer to be lazy.
You simply do not need these frontier models, they outgrew most people's needs 6 months ago, but for some reason people still want to run a 700k rack of gpus full throttle to center a div for them.
Doing what? How many jobs involve solving Millennium Prize math challenges?
99% of everything is CRUD LoB apps.
I am coding CRUD apps with a mix of astra, sol 6.1, fable and opus 5.5. A more capable model would still benefit me imo. Being able to follow high level guidance better, and being able to harness other models for each task would be a big improvement.
Do you know how what you're doing, or do you find yourself working on things you dont understand and need the best model because it's the only way to push your own capabilities (because you're avoiding learning how to do the thing yourself)?
Not asking to be mean, I just genuinely dont know why you'd need the frontier for basic applications.
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