alt Hacker NewsIf you get to pay X to YY $$ per each request (because thats the real cost for Anthropic), I strongly believe AI train would suddenly derail.
Currently we are all subsidied by investors money.
How long you can have a business that is only losing money. At some point prices will level up and this will be the end of this escapade.
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FeepingCreature • last Friday at 9:03 AM
It's very unlikely that API use is subsidized.
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Once local models hit claude code + opus 4.5 levels that is the new normal. That is a good-enough baseline of intelligence to sustain productivity for the next 10 years or more. We are still so close to this line in the sand that theres not a lot of margin for regression in the SOTA models before they become "worse than no AI" for getting real work done day-to-day. But eventually the local models and harnesses will catch up and there will no longer be a need to use the SAAS versions and still reap the benefits of AI in general.