alt Hacker News… 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.
I’m getting like $8k per month in API rate value from each $200/month subscription.
You clearly have an ideological issue with these companies, but I don’t share your views or your values. They could cut me off tomorrow but it wouldn’t kill my business. Worst case, I’d have to figure out how to make do with what you’re already choosing to do today.