Your Cheapest AI Decision Costs a Quarter of a Cent

Podcast: AI Breakdown · Varun Sirohi

Opublikowano: 2026-10-02

𝐀 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐈𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬. 😳 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 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞. 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 than the mistakes. At a quarter of a cent, you check everything. Inside the episode: 🔴 📊 𝟕𝟕𝟕 judgments returned in under 0.7 seconds, for about a quarter of a cent 🔴 The new shape: the language model proposes, the judgment model decides, code executes 🔴 An audit industry for agents is forming. Regulated sellers will need it within two years Your move: find one...