Can you speak to the total api costs to create one such game? Not looking for exact numbers but I'm curious if to create, say, that snowboarding game, it cost closer to $5, $50, or $500 in usage.
The LLM costs are hard to pin down exactly since I run it on a Claude Max subscription, but based on token usage I'd estimate it's in the low single digits — probably around $1–3 for a full game generation run if you were paying API rates.
The asset generation costs are tracked precisely. The current cost table: images are 5–15 cents depending on resolution (7 cents at 1K default, 10 cents at 2K, 15 cents at 4K). 3D models via Tripo3D run 30–60 cents depending on quality tier (a full 3D asset including the reference image is 37 cents at medium). Visual QA (Gemini Flash) is essentially free at this scale.
A typical game needs maybe 10–20 images and a handful of 3D models, so total asset costs usually land under $3. For something like the snowboarding game, you're looking at roughly $5–8 all-in — closer to your $5 bucket than $50. And image gen costs are dropping fast, Grok Imagine is 2 cents per image now, which is on the migration roadmap.
Sometimes your system doesn’t have a graphical session, like a raspberry pi with no x server running, or a cloud compute instance I’m ssh’ed into, or a docker image running on my laptop. Sometimes your system doesn’t have a (particularly usable) text system, like a work computer that disables the terminal or a family member’s MacBook who doesn’t have the time or space to install XCode terminal utilities to be able to use things like brew install.
My point is that it’s not a given that having one means you have the other.
Processes by default get stdin and stdout. If you run a command interactively from your tty, the tty shows your stdout and collects stdin from you to pass to the process. But nothing about Unix prevents you from hooking something else up to stdin and stdout. As another commenter said, you could use sockets and have a completely generic input and output stream which an arbitrary tool could read and write to. Or you could spin up a websocket server that spawns the process and converts between websocket messages and stdin/stdout bytes. Or http requests and long polled responses. Or read input from a speech to text stream and push output into a text to speech stream.
I feel like OP’s main gripe is that persistent interactive sessions should be supported without a third party tool like tmux or screen or zellij, but one of the main strengths of Unix is that it provides platform building blocks which can be composed to create whatever experience you’re looking for.
> Bellwether, a moonshot at Alphabet's X, is using Earth AI to provide hurricane predictions insights for global insurance broker McGill and Partners. This enables McGill's clients to pay claims faster so homeowners can start rebuilding sooner.
Could be a nice expensive contractor option for replacing the NOAA's public data that we lost. But it probably wont be picked up because it has to study the climate, which is a bad word now.
You can totally create a private version of NOAA so long as you keep the messaging about insurance intelligence and never, ever speculate out loud about the causes of hurricanes. And if that's not enough, just do what Meta did and hire some shmuck like Robby Starbuck to signal that you're on the right team.
What they want is for the government to run the satellites and provide the data on the taxpayers' dime, but only let private companies interpret that data so they can sell their forecasting
Google (with partner companies) launched a climate-monitoring satellite last year. Thanks to SpaceX, it’s cheaper than ever for private organizations to launch satellites.
Seems plausible to me. It would allow them to start contracting CAT adjusters as soon as a hurricane is expected, before other insurers start bidding for them.
Will this actually pay off for them? Who knows. But insurers are quite into ML for claims/underwriting these days, so I'd believe they're giving it a try.
You need a large workforce of adjusters to handle big events like a hurricane, but you don’t need them all the time. So catastrophe adjusters are often independent contractors.
Pay is good but hours are long, and you are often deployed far away from home.
Sorry but our AI said your home destroyed in the hurricane was not in fact destroyed by a hurricane. Claim denied. We accept no further inquiries on the matter.
100% of claims paid out instantly, so its kinda true.
Certainly banned enough that you can't listen to ATC playback anywhere online. I think in practice you can use an air band radio at home (not sure how anyone would know if you were anyway).
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