The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK(mroczek.dev)

96 points by lackoftactics 4 months ago | 99 comments

Definancialization / Hyperfinancialization(mylessnider.com)

13 points by alexgiann 1 year ago | 5 comments

What the Windsurf sale means for the AI coding ecosystem(ethanding.substack.com)

153 points by whoami_nr 1 year ago | 38 comments

Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based(zed.dev)

156 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 148 comments

Understanding GPT tokenizers(simonwillison.net)

380 points by simonw 3 years ago | 110 comments

Simon Willison blog post explaining how GPT tokenizers convert text to integer tokens, with an Observable notebook tool for encoding, decoding and searching tokens.

Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective(eshumarneedi.com)

165 points by ExMachina73 3 months ago | 146 comments

We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI(derekthompson.org)

11 points by abe94 24 days ago | 8 comments

A paid Substack essay by Derek Thompson arguing the AI buildout has raised costs rather than delivering cheap abundance, fueling American hostility to AI.

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt(futurism.com)

628 points by technewssss 3 months ago | 317 comments

Futurism article reporting that AI companies are using off-balance-sheet arrangements to hide large amounts of debt.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)(taalas.com)

804 points by sidnarsipur 8 months ago | 436 comments

Taalas blog post by Ljubisa Bajic arguing that latency and cost limit AI adoption and presenting its approach to very fast (17k tokens/sec) inference hardware.

Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget(wsj.com)

40 points by swolpers 21 days ago | 41 comments

Wall Street Journal article on how businesses struggle to budget for AI spending as token-based costs grow unpredictably.

Nobody knows how to build with AI yet(worksonmymachine.substack.com)

475 points by Stwerner 1 year ago | 368 comments

Scott Werner's Substack essay arguing nobody yet knows how to build software with AI, drawing on building Protocollie in four days without touching the code.