Comment by crazygringo

> Somewhere, there are GPUs/NPUs running hot.

Running at their designed temperature.

> You send all the necessary data, including information that you would never otherwise share.

I've never sent the type of data that isn't already either stored by GitHub or a cloud provider, so no difference there.

> And you most likely do not pay the actual costs.

So? Even if costs double once investor subsidies stop, that doesn't change much of anything. And the entire history of computing is that things tend to get cheaper.

> You and your business become dependent on this major gatekeeper.

Not really. Switching between Claude and Gemini or whatever new competition shows up is pretty easy. I'm no more dependent on it than I am on any of another hundred business services or providers that similarly mostly also have competitors.