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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  Using open models is the approach offering the biggest AI cost savings, followed by smart model routing.

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  To answer the question posed in the header of this report, it’s apparent that using open models is indeed the approach offering the biggest savings, followed by smart model routing. Spending controls and context optimization also bear down on costs, but they don’t come close to the first two techniques in results.

  The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI modelsblog.pragmaticengineer.com

Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.

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  Saving dominates returns early in a career and returns dominate saving later, because compounding is back-loaded.

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  How much you save has a far greater impact than your investments early on in your career. But as your portfolio grows, investment returns swamp your savings because of the wonders of compounding.

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Economist at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute; works on what advanced AI would do to growth, saving and the long-run economy.

From one piece The better AI gets, the smaller its share of the economy might get – Alex Imas and Phil Trammell 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Whoever fails to satiate in capital rationally saves more, and therefore ends up holding most of the wealth in the long run.

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  Then the person who doesn't satiate in capital is going to have if they're being rational they're going to have a higher savings rate.

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  Even with no redistribution at all, a little saving would rescue a great many people, because the same AI that automates the work makes returns enormous.

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  things have to go really wrong for us to like just get over the threshold of uh you know, capital being productive enough to automate lots of work, but not be productive enough that that the interest rate is high and or the price of capital produced goods is falling a lot, okay? So, even without redistribution, a little bit of savings will save a lot of people.

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Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.

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  Engineering offices abroad should be opened where world-class talent already lives, not where labour is cheap — you bring the work to the talent rather than moving the talent.

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  We didn't go to other places because of cost savings like that. We go there because we have need and we have world class talent

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Co-founder of the AI agent company Sierra, and previously an eighteen-year Google executive who ran product for Workspace, virtual and augmented reality, and Google Labs.

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  An application-layer AI company's real breakthroughs come from going a click or two down the stack rather than from using the models as they are.

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  many of the breakthroughs that we've had that have enabled us to to deliver such quality and cost savings and more have come through novel agent architectures and and really going down a click or two in in the stack to innovate at at lower levels of the technology stack.

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Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.

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  A robotaxi that still needs remote human help loses the cost advantage that motivated it, which pushes out when it can scale.

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  If Waymo vehicles were constantly asking for remote guidance, Waymo might need to hire so many remote operators that it negates the cost savings that come from not needing a driver.

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Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  Building materials are already about as cheap as civilisation knows how to make them, so cheaper materials are not where housing savings will come from.

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  Bulk building materials are already mass-produced in factories, and are among the cheapest materials civilization is capable of producing.

  What Makes Housing So Expensive?construction-physics.com

American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.

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