[HN Gopher] The Inference Economy: Why demand matters more than ...
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       The Inference Economy: Why demand matters more than supply
        
       Author : cgwu
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2025-11-13 19:02 UTC (10 days ago)
        
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       | spprashant wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | estimator7292 wrote:
         | Four of the five books in the trilogy are about finding the
         | question.
        
       | roxolotl wrote:
       | 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.
        
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