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Jerica Collective, LLC
Art and Science by Humans, for Humans


Weekly Newsletter, May 1 2026
A back-of-the-envelope calculation I made as I was finalizing my decision to abandon AI: Claude Opus has about 200,000 tokens. It costs "a few tens of millions" of dollars to train, which takes six weeks to "train to mastery" at 1.3 GW per hour. Not to mention the millions of dollars being dumped into prompt engineering, the last hiring field in computer science, that's just a bunch of sad, overworked engineers, quite literally training their replacement. The human brain, on
Phillip Durst
2 days ago1 min read
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