alt Hacker NewsYou’re comparing API rates, but your original question was about subscriptions.
Also, if I wanted to generate Sonnet 4.6-quality tokens, maybe your suggested setup is the better approach (though I still highly doubt it), but I don’t. I want Opus 5.5 / Fable 5.1 level of quality, because the ROI in terms of human-in-the-loop time saved and how much better and faster I can build is worth WAY more than $200 / month to me. That’s basically a rounding error for my business.
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coldtea • yesterday at 10:47 PM
>That’s basically a rounding error for my business.
As long as you have a business. AI will "Sherlock" many and commodify all.
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… For now, until the machine you keep feeding eats your business.
Anyway, if it’s worth more than $200/month definitely don’t spend $600 and expect it’ll replace that. But $2400 ($200/month for one year) gets you much closer to sota than $600 - and whatever the line that stops being a rounding error for your business gets you closer still.
How much is it worth to own your livelihood? To me outsourcing to anthropic or openai for $200/month means you’re handing them the ability to kill your business at any moment without even noticing. That’s worth more to me than 30% points of intelligence.