Re:What Dot.com Bandwidth Taught Me About the AI Token Cost ...
by marekful on Friday June 05, 2026 @12:05PM
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What made you think we'd ever need AI tokens as much as we do bandwidth, or that they are even comparable.
Bandwidth is abstract, it's information flow. LLMs are a specialised tool, they are based on noise and randomness, and thus are inherently imperfect.
We could have guaranteed the elimination of famine world-wide for 100 years from the resources we wasted on the AI infrastructure in the last 5 years. Shame on us.
There's usefulness in LLMs but not that much. They are definitely not the future.
Bandwidth is abstract, it's information flow. LLMs are a specialised tool, they are based on noise and randomness, and thus are inherently imperfect.
We could have guaranteed the elimination of famine world-wide for 100 years from the resources we wasted on the AI infrastructure in the last 5 years. Shame on us.
There's usefulness in LLMs but not that much. They are definitely not the future.