The Inference Economy: Why demand matters more than supply(frontierai.substack.com)
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The Inference Economy: Why demand matters more than supply
https://frontierai.substack.com/p/the-inference-economy-part-ii
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Tangential but seeing the `source: GPT-5` under an image I could only guess at what it’s trying to say made me realize that image prompts are basically the perfect image caption. They contain the intent and framing of the image.
The whole enterprise of the data center buildout reminds me of the chapter from Hitchhikers where they build a huge supercomputer for answers but never ponder what the question is.
Four of the five books in the trilogy are about finding the question.