@mirth @alienghic @cwebber What downward trend in average model complexity? What downward trend in energy consumption? They're both going up! Nobody can get the cost of inference to go down outside of going with discount models like Deepseek which are okay for spouting text but you can't get anywhere near the code quality of something like Claude Code (and even with CC, as the OP link says, quality is still something that only works well in certain languages and in certain situations, with lots and lots of guard rails). Ed Zitron isn't everyone's cup of tea, but he's been watching the finances of this for a while and there's absolutely no sign of the burn rate slowing down or the cost of inference dropping. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/