Cost becomes the limit before performance does

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In a comparison that ran the same task with only the depth of thinking changed across five levels, the converted cost rose from $1.45 to $30.35 on one task and from $3.95 to $101.06 on the other, and on both tasks the biggest jump came in the step up to the highest level. The highest level ranked first on quality, but the gain in quality was small next to the rise in price, so the conclusion was to stay at a low level when only the function is needed and that the stretch with the best value for money is the upper-middle level. The write-up itself noted the limit that this is its own measurement, taken only once each. A write-up on cutting cost holds that which model the work goes to, how deeply it is made to think and how many files it is made to read matter more than the length of the prompt. There is even an account of someone building a device that shows the money being spent on the spot, like a meter, so making cost visible is itself becoming a feature of the tooling.

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