alt Hacker NewsI’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.
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I absolutely do have an ideological viewpoint. I hope i haven’t come across as trying to hide that.
One of my beliefs, call it ideology if you like, is that api cost is much more representative of real cost of this stuff. Good luck switch to local models the same week everyone else decides to switch because subscription prices went up 5x… it’s going to cost more than $600.
Anyway, like it or not, you are giving $200/month to fund another ideology. One that looks to me like a leopards-eating-faces type of ideology.
>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.
That's just the issue of your access to AI in the worst case.
The actually impactful part of the worst case would be what happens to your ability to have a job, put food on the table, or even afford to live in a house.