AI Is Getting More Expensive Than the Humans It Replaces
The biggest surprise of the AI boom may not be what AI can do — but how much it costs to run it at scale.
· 7 min read · ai-ml, futures
Mohamed EL HARCHAOUI — AI Engineer. Intelligence for thinking, robotics for doing.
This is where I share reflections on systems reshaping our world.
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Making LLMs Faster Without Retraining
Seven experiments — SVD, activation-aware factorization, Monarch projections, LoRA recovery, closed-form initialization — hunting for the configuration where speedup and quality finally overlap.
A personal experiment log testing multiple compression techniques across two model scales, ending with a GPT-2 Large that runs 1.6× faster and outperforms its uncompressed baseline by 13.7%.
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