Debunking 'cost-sensitive tasks favor weak LLMs': scripts and ASICs kill whole task classes
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-13
Pushing back on the argument that 'cost-sensitive tasks will dominate and favor weaker LLMs,' teortaxesTex argues LLMs are always expensive — the real win is using scripts and ASICs to eliminate entire classes of tasks, tied to his optimism about the upper bound of useful intelligence. The quoted tweet had countered that cheap models replicate frontier capabilities at a fraction of the cost.
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