Hacker News: datarangerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=datarangerHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 05 May 2026 08:23:02 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by dataranger in "Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months"]]>we run an agentic pipeline in a different domain (data sourcing) and the only way the math works is to be ruthless about which stages actually need which model.

As a founder, the question I always have is "what is the marginal value per token relative to engineer-hours saved." More of a gut feel at the moment, but would be great to calculate.

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