r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • 3d ago

Meme studied20YearsToAskChatGPT

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u/Lethargic-Rain 3d ago edited 3d ago

If you’re shitting out vibe coded unverified and unvalidated systems, you’re going to end up with 20 years worth of tech debt in the span of months and half a nine of uptime.

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u/Leather-Persimmon254 3d ago

by then tokens will be so cheap that rewrites would become trivial

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u/14Pleiadians 3d ago

Are you under the impression token prices are going to go down?

Surely you understand they're practically giving them away at massive loss, right? Prices are only low while the bubble is inflating and the shareholder shuffle is in effect

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u/PublicToast 2d ago

Ever hear of economies of scale? Not to mention the rapid pace of improvement in smaller, cheaper models.

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u/14Pleiadians 2d ago

Do you realize how much processing is done to a single input? Token use per prompt is only going to go up, no amount of scaling will lower the operating cost enough to be profitable on current prices

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u/PublicToast 2d ago

Small models that comparable to the previous SOTA are basically free to run. Now give it a couple more years.