• shuffle3765@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    Firstly why would you pay API prices when you can use the subscription plans for 20x less

    Secondly that much API spend would require dozens of senior engineers using it full time, like you’d be doing the work of an entire, quite large engineering team not a single junior

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      9 hours ago

      They are changing the pricing plans to move away from the subscription model to a metered model. Beause operating at a loss is not a long term goal. People have no idea what July is going to be like, when MS changes Copilot to metered in June it’s going to be bad. I checked the usage for my companies plan yesterday and we are going to be paying more. At least 2x. Good luck to the companies that are burning tokens as part of their business plan. Either they get massive bills and go broke, or lose access to Ai after 5 days.

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      10 hours ago

      Aren’t some of the LLMs moving away from the unlimited token subscriptions since they are losing a ton of money?

      I don’t really follow that, I would neverpay for an LLM.

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      9 hours ago

      Currently, yes. However, if you build your business on highly subsidised temporary prices, you are probably like the CEOs that can’t think further than their shareholders. If you believe there will be flat rates in the end I have a bridge to sell to you.