alt Hacker NewsI think you would guess wrong.
The median user is using AI as a search engine, meme creator, and/or chatbot… at best.
The additional cost created by the subset of programmers using subscriptions rather than tokens/api can easily be categorized as a marketing expense.
At best? Do you have any data you're basing that claim on, or are you just speculating based off of you projecting? AI maximalists would have you believe that people are using these things as therapists and having conversations with it that are more intimate than any lovers'. AI minimalists would have you believe that no one is using these thing except at gunpoint, and even then. Unless you have some reason for us to believe you that isn't just "trust me bro", your portrayl of the median user is as suspect as any other.