The Inference Economy: Why demand matters more than supply

Posted by cgwu on Thursday November 13, 2025 @02:02PM
from the frontierai.substack.com dept.

https://frontierai.substack.com/p/the-inference-economy-part-ii

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Re:The Inference Economy: Why demand matters more than supply by spprashant on Sunday November 23, 2025 @03:40PM (#46027134)

The whole enterprise of the data center buildout reminds me of the chapter from Hitchhikers where they build a huge supercomputer for answers but never ponder what the question is.

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Re:The Inference Economy: Why demand matters more than supply by estimator7292 on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:42PM (#46027611)

Four of the five books in the trilogy are about finding the question.

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Re:The Inference Economy: Why demand matters more than supply by roxolotl on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:24PM (#46027472)

Tangential but seeing the `source: GPT-5` under an image I could only guess at what it’s trying to say made me realize that image prompts are basically the perfect image caption. They contain the intent and framing of the image.

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