Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo...
by simonw on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @07:04AM
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Training costs are fixed. Inference costs are variable. The difference matters.
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Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo...
by vrighter on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @09:08AM
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No they are not. They are exponentially increasing. Due to the exponential scaling needed for linear gain. Otherwise they'd fall behind their competition.
Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo...
by simonw on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @10:26AM
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Fixed cost here means that the training costs stay the same no matter how many customers you have - unlike serving costs which have to increase to serve more people.
Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo...
by 3form on Thursday February 19, 2026 @04:11AM
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Yet somewhere above you said:
>Training costs are fixed at whatever billions of dollars per year.
Which I think is the part people disagree with.
Re:Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on emplo...
by simonw on Thursday February 19, 2026 @08:24AM
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I used the word "fixed" there to indicate that the cost of training is unaffected by how many users you have, unlike the cost of serving the model which increases as your usage increases.