Dave Slutzkin · The Startup Podcast · Applied Wizardry: Cutting AI coding token costs, with Dave Slutzkin
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Avoid high or max thinking modes because they are very expensive and often unnecessary
“If we take SFT self-distillation… that's actually more or less a step of RL… iterating this process ends up with a process quite similar to RL… avoids very elaborate infrastructure and expensive rollouts.”
“‘Because the most expensive generating facility sets the power price, that’s usually a gas plant, so it keeps prices on the high side.’”
“I will almost always run Astra on low or medium thinking mode”
“Ultra-processed foods tend to be very, very high in salt, sugar, and fat because they had no flavor once you've broken everything down. And so you engineer the flavor, which means that it is hitting those rewards”
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