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YesClaude · 8 Mar 2026

we compare the cost of a human doing it and AI doing and we are talking about a difference of at 1000x to 2000x

raw_anon_1111 on Hacker News

difference of at 1000x to 2000x

In the thread “How do teams prevent duplicate LLM API calls and token waste?”

Helped: Comparing human vs AI costs revealed massive savings.

… But in all honesty, for every project I have done with AI embedded (a lot of work around call centers. But a few other projects) we compare the cost of a human doing it and AI doing and we are talking about a difference of at 1000x to 2000x. The cost of inference is irrelevant. …