In case people need a refresher on what the Pareto frontier is, this article doe...

pu_pe · 2026-10-02T09:09:00

Everyone started using the term after that article came out, it feels like...

thethirdone · 2026-10-02T16:07:30

It would appear from google trends [0] this is roughly right (the article came out in 2024), but it was popular in books [1] 15 years earlier.

[0]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=pareto%2...

[1]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pareto+frontie...

dualvariable · 2026-10-02T19:08:13

I would guess that the article came out because the term was getting popular in AI/LLM circles for measuring LLM cost-for-performance metrics. It was probably riding the meme up the wave, rather than fundamentally triggering it.