Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

Coding with LLMs (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) is often presented as the ‘killer app’ for Generative AI. But looking at data, it seems the one piece of the puzzle missing is actual cost. A quest into getting a less muddy picture about what is going on, w…

Generative AI ‘reasoning models’ don’t reason, even if it seems they do

‘Reasoning models’ such as GPT4-o3 have become a well known member of the Generative AI family. But look inside and while they add a certain depth, at the same time they add nothing at all. Not ‘reasoning’ anyway. Just another ‘level of indirection’ wh…