Elecia White

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Embedded systems engineer and author of Making Embedded Systems. Winner of the IEEE Meritorious Achievement Award in Outreach and Informal Education for work introducing people to STEAM fields. Co-hosts Embedded, a long-running podcast on embedded systems engineering, and has also appeared on The Agile Embedded Podcast, CodeNewbie, and The Changelog.

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Elecia White hosts and writes Embedded and writes The Agile Embedded Podcast . They have also been a guest on CodeNewbie and The Changelog .

Recently: “537: Quiet Time Innovation” on Embedded (October 2026); “536: I’ve Seen a Giraffe” on Embedded (October 2026); “535: The You in the Machine” on Embedded (October 2026); “534: I Think We'll Add a Head ” on Embedded (September 2026); “533: The Garage Is Open” on Embedded (September 2026); “532: It's Still Real Fire” on Embedded (August 2026).

What They Said

The co-hosts disagreed about whether AI models are getting cheaper. White says the best frontier models cost more, but any fixed level of capability becomes cheaper over time, crediting the idea to a guest from a few weeks earlier.

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Elecia White

Like Adam was saying a few weeks ago. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Where if you take one level of how it works, next year that level will be significantly cheaper. The

Speaker 2

frontier models continue to get more expensive, but everything is. It's the front line. Yes.

Elecia White

The cutting edge continues to get more expensive. But a single point in capability keeps getting cheaper.

Speaker 2

Yeah. So that's what I'm doing. And I do the homework. It gives me homework. I do the exercises. It runs the exercises, runs my tests. It's making me do test-driven development to a certain extent. It's a harsh critic. But I try to push back on some of that. But then

Elecia White

it gets all obsequious and you're like, not

Speaker 2

this model I'm using doesn't get super obsequious. But I don't know. Part of me also just wants to run into the sea. I have a lot of music to work on too.

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