shrineOfLies

Got it. Thanks for sharing the guidelines.

I wanted to figure out how many tokens I was using and if it made sense to use the API and pay granularly instead of the pro plan for chatGPT ($200/month).

So, I built tokount. It is almost entirely built by prompting the replit agent. Except for the tokenizer, which was written with some help from chatGPT o1-preview.

It cost me approx. $45 just for prompting the replit agent, and a few additional dollars for database and VM. Took about 2 full days and did it on a mix of phone and laptop. Needed the laptop for tokenizer, most other features could be built just on the phone.

Conclusion: I’m definitely better off using the API. It’s surprising how much text is needed to reach 1M Tokens.

Any guesstimates on how much it was acquired for?

This is one of the most powerful speeches I've come across.

I'll explain in short.

It makes me happy that such sadness, fear, pain and suffering is not present today.

On the other hand, It makes me sad that all of that meaning is lost in society and we chase frivolous things. We don't value humans for their humaneness anymore. We value them for their external appearance, and other frivolous things.

I understand that I cannot generalize the general public this way, but remember i'm taking a subjective stance. I'm merely stating its impact on my thoughts, it may be far from the truth or on point. I dont care.

These are not well educated programmers. They are probably run of the mill undereducated software engineers from an outsourcing company. They do not recognize the technical issue here, albeit report an ethical issue.

Companies like Toyota generally outsource software development to other companies like Bosch. Bosch employs a bunch of programmers in Bangalore who are just out of college, and pay them peanuts to develop a safety critical system.

By asking this question, you're essentially making a huge assumption. Firstly, Do humans drive to work to only connect their senses? When you say we "primarily drive to connect our senses anyways", you're diluting the purpose of the entire exercise of "working" to "connecting our senses". Which is false.

Consider the profession of driving. There will always be a need for "drivers", not just humans, for transporting goods, services etc. Is driving an exercise of just connecting our senses? No. It also involves performing actions based on inputs from these senses. Why would anyone want to create VR based drivers? It makes no sense, because self driving cars are already possible. Self driving cars have already won the competition in this case. This is the one scenario where VR and self driving cars compete.

Now consider the profession of software development. Here, let's say VR made it such that you wouldn't have a need to drive to work. Then, you wouldn't drive to work, but you'd still need to get places - for which a car (maybe self driving) is still required. In this case, again, self driving cars and VR are not competing. One has made removed the need for the other for a very specific purpose. This is not competition.

I think your question is asked with a very narrow minded view of "working". You're probably a software engineer. AMIRITE?

I completely agree with this comment. Indian consultancies are here to cheat. Have seen this happen first hand.