Martin Shkreli and Mikhail Parakhin criticize enterprises that limit developer access to top-tier AI models over high API bills

Like, literally this! @fnthawar knows, I push hard on people to always use the best model.

@dylan522p Most of your spend should be on non frontier models 🤣

Whether or not that is haiku or sonnet depends on task/org comp

Sonnet is unfit value for external production tasks

@dylan522p Please don't take this the wrong way, but what do you do to justify a million dollar Anthropic bill? I thought you just have the blog?

@dylan522p Yep.

I was test-driving a certain AI legal assistant (which I won't name) the other day. Opened its Microsoft Word plug-in. Realized that it uses Sonnet 3.5 under the hood. Closed the Microsoft Word plug-in, and will never open it again.

@AlanRBlair The newsletter is sub 2% of revenue. We track all the equipment, fabs, accelerators, memory, datacenters, power, and tokens

@AlanRBlair @dylan522p It's a slop factory.

@kenbwork My nephew. Brother's baby

@dylan522p It's legit to use it for tasks where latency matters.

@dylan522p Whose child are you holding

@AlanRBlair @dylan522p they sell even better information to institutions for far higher prices

@dylan522p @SemiAnalysis_ When doing automation, using smaller models for very simple tasks is a valid use case in my view

@dylan522p Using the right model for the task often delivers better results and higher productivity than defaulting to the cheapest option. Teams tend to perform better when given tools that match the complexity of their work.

@dylan522p Is it subagents? Claude Code likes to delegate explore tasks to Haiku

@dylan522p Detailed strategy are as follows

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@dylan522p Haiku is a waste of everyone’s time and money. At the point just do it yourself.

@dylan522p lol, Haiku is OK for certain low end of knowledge work and very cheap

@dylan522p 👏

@dylan522p @SemiAnalysis_ Lololololololol

@dylan522p If you get the opportunity to talk to these boomer CEOs, tell them to listen to their engineers figure out how to drive costs down.

@dylan522p i would agree on a completely different metric. Haiku is so dumb, it is worthless spending any money on it. Use a better model for cheaper on openrouter.