Comment by lrvick
2 days ago
But yet they can afford to pay Anthropic $200/mo forever?
This hardware pays for itself pretty fast.
Prices will of course come WAY down, but even today, even rideshare and delivery drivers still manage to get loans to buy cars that cost tens of thousands of dollars because they need it do their job.
People that need AI to do their job should consider owning the means of production as a top priority IMO instead of being perpetual renters without any privacy or defense against getting priced out.
> This hardware pays for itself pretty fast.
I think that's only true for a fairly limited set of people, though. Just the basic hardware in your case is about 80 months worth of the $200/month subscription. And that's excluding the machine to put the hardware in and the electricity, space, and cooling requirements.
If I'm someone who lives in a small apartment, the idea of running a bunch of 300W TDP cards is potentially problematic beyond just the basic cost.