Comment by giancarlostoro
14 hours ago
> Their api pricing is absurdly expensive.
I assume at this point that it subsidizes subscriptions.
14 hours ago
> Their api pricing is absurdly expensive.
I assume at this point that it subsidizes subscriptions.
Subscriptions are a mechanism to attract developers, who then advocate that their company should use the API.
yes, it absolutely does.
I've gotten more work done on a second chatgpt pro $100/mo subscription than I did with ~$150 of paying for usage through the app.
Massively subsidized. As soon as my Claude switches from subscription to overage I have to tap out quickly.
This is a big part of the reason I went local-only. Subscription limits are horrible for having a decent workflow.
There's no universe in which just buying a second or a larger subscription isn't a billion times better and cheaper than any kind of comparable local workflow.
Privacy, experimenting with ML and "unorthodox" needs are currently the only acceptable reasons to do local.
Yeah, it sure was convenient that there was a RAM pricing crisis right when Apple was making local inference viable. All because of a promise that AI companies will buy more of it... with money they don't yet have, whereas Apple does have lots of money.