{"id":238551,"date":"2025-09-19T09:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238551\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:12:18","slug":"adding-up-the-hidden-costs-of-generative-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238551\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding up the hidden costs of generative AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, developers have dreamed of a higher-level abstraction that would free them from boilerplate code. Generative AI comes closer than ever, with senior engineers already letting it take on more of the work. But the vision of an effortless AI-driven future is colliding with hard realities like climbing prices and alarming security issues. Could smaller, more specialized models be the way forward?<\/p>\n<p>Top picks for generative AI readers on InfoWorld<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/4049946\/is-ai-the-4gl-weve-been-waiting-for.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is AI the 4GL we\u2019ve been waiting for?<\/a><br \/><\/strong>For more than 30 years, developers have awaited a true \u201cfourth-generation language\u201d at a higher-level of abstraction than Java or C++. With genAI tools producing code from natural language prompts, Matthew Tyson wonders if 4GL may have finally arrived.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/4049949\/senior-developers-let-ai-do-more-of-the-coding-survey.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senior developers let AI do more of the coding<\/a><br \/><\/strong>The stereotype says new coders are overly reliant on AI, but a recent survey revealed something different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For decades, developers have dreamed of a higher-level abstraction that would free them from boilerplate code. Generative AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":238552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-238551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115230195499765369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}