Was anyone under the impression that it does? Serious question. I've never heard that, personally.

This is such a well-written essay. Every line revealed the answer to the immediate question I had just thought of

Nobody gets RSI typing “iterate until tests pass”

These margins are far greater than the ones Dario has indicated during many of his recent podcasts appearances.

How confident are you in the opus 4.6 model size? I've always assumed it was a beefier model with more active params that Qwen397B (17B active on the forward pass)

Ok but so it does cost Cursor $5k per power-Cursor user?? Still seems pretty rough..

Good article! Small suggestions:

1. It would be nice to define terms like RSI or at least link to a definition.

2. I found the graph difficult to read. It's a computer font that is made to look hand-drawn and it's a bit low resolution. With some googling I'm guessing the words in parentheses are the clouds the model is running on. You could make that a bit more clear.

> I'm fairly confident the Forbes sources are confusing retail API prices with actual compute costs

Aren't they losing money on the retail API pricing, too?

> ... comparisons to artificially low priced Chinese providers...

Yeah, no this article does not pass the sniff test.