AI isn’t always the cheaper option.

In my interview with lexicographer and Wordnik founder Erin McKean (@emckeanErin McKean), we talked about what AI means for dictionaries, and she pointed out that “Lexicographers are way cheaper than AI engineers. By an order of magnitude.”

Sure, LLMs can sometimes speed things up. But tuning, deploying, and maintaining those models isn’t always more efficient than hiring humans.

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