Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace
Shoulder-to-shoulder with the flesh-based cohort most immediately under the pump at a conference called AI Engineer Melbourne, I heard conversations about the future of software engineering working their way through denial, anger, bargaining, and depression, to ... coupon clipping? REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Now that organisations have been weaned off earlier 'all you can eat' subscription plans and onto 'pay-as-you-go' metered token consumption, they're all in various stages of sticker shock. Several talks at the conference discussed managing token costs, such as AJ Fisher's exploration of 'diffusion' models.
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