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Your Cheapest AI Decision Costs a Quarter of a Cent

AI Breakdown ยท Oct 2, 2026 ยท 9m

๐€ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ซ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ ๐œ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ค ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐œ๐š๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐š ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž. ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐๐ž๐ฌ. ๐Ÿ˜ณ

You hand it a message and a question, does this customer sound angry, and it hands back a number. 0.9. Ninety percent confident. A probability your software can act on, with no one reading anything.

This week on ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ˆ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ค๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง:

๐“๐ก๐ž $๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐„๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ž๐ž.

This splits the cheap employee in two. One that writes, and one that decides. The one that decides is the cheaper hire, and it changes what you are allowed to check. At language model prices you sample, because checking everything costs more thanโ€ฆ

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