[madihaa]

The most exciting part isn't necessarily the ceiling raising though that's happening, but the floor rising while costs plummet. Getting Opus-level reasoning at Sonnet prices/latency is what actually unlocks agentic workflows. We are effectively getting the same intelligence unit for half the compute every 6-9 months.

[scottmf]

2024: Intelligence too cheap to meter

2026: Everyone is spending $500/month on LLM subscriptions

[qingcharles]

My Dad used to make the same joke in the 1980s about how they'd told him in the 1950s that nuclear power would be "too cheap to meter" which I assume is probably where the trope originated.

[mooreds]

> We are effectively getting the same intelligence unit for half the compute every 6-9 months.

Something something ... Altman's law? Amodei's law?

Needs a name.

[merlindru]

How about More's law - because we keep getting "more" compute at a lower cost?

[turnsout]

This is what excited me about Sonnet 4.6. I've been running Opus 4.6, and switched over to Sonnet 4.6 today to see if I could notice a difference. So far, I can't detect much if any difference, but it doesn't hit my usage quota as hard.

[nimonian]

Moore's law lives on!