<![CDATA[In a surprise to no one who has looked at the economics of cloud services before, I think a *lot* of people are in for a rude awakening.]]>In a surprise to no one who has looked at the economics of cloud services before, I think a *lot* of people are in for a rude awakening. It's almost like these bigco's were acting like dealers all along...

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Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com)

GitHub Copilot allowed this guy to spend $25 for every dollar of subscription, or put another way, $11,432 of tokens for $451 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/0f09239a-afaa-4cf5-bd22-078961662ec1/in-a-surprise-to-no-one-who-has-looked-at-the-economics-of-cloud-services-before-i-think-a-lot-of-people-are-in-for-a-rude-awakening.RSS for NodeFri, 05 Jun 2026 11:06:56 GMTSat, 16 May 2026 23:09:21 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to In a surprise to no one who has looked at the economics of cloud services before, I think a *lot* of people are in for a rude awakening. on Sun, 17 May 2026 11:42:59 GMT]]>@jwrm22 @soph You’re not missing much. You can run something like qwen-coder locally in ollana to get the experience of early to mid coding „agents“.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/melgu/statuses/116589735436225806https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/melgu/statuses/116589735436225806Sun, 17 May 2026 11:42:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to In a surprise to no one who has looked at the economics of cloud services before, I think a *lot* of people are in for a rude awakening. on Sun, 17 May 2026 11:26:12 GMT]]>@soph Beside the issues, I'm slightly mad that I missed out on the cheap tokens. As in an ideal world I had the time and energy to learn to work with the tools while it was still cheap.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hsnl.social/users/jwrm22/statuses/116589669414994645https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hsnl.social/users/jwrm22/statuses/116589669414994645Sun, 17 May 2026 11:26:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to In a surprise to no one who has looked at the economics of cloud services before, I think a *lot* of people are in for a rude awakening. on Sun, 17 May 2026 10:44:50 GMT]]>@soph "The first hit is free the next will have you down on your knees..."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.ivor.org/users/ivor/statuses/116589506782313914https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.ivor.org/users/ivor/statuses/116589506782313914Sun, 17 May 2026 10:44:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to In a surprise to no one who has looked at the economics of cloud services before, I think a *lot* of people are in for a rude awakening. on Sun, 17 May 2026 10:42:59 GMT]]>@soph Well, someone has to pay for all of the multibillion $ new datacenters to run this stuff…

Guess what? That’s the consumer who was told that “inference is going to zero” and well, … it’s not.

All those managers who thought this was a better bet than negotiating salaries for their developers are now confronted with price hikes where they have zero leverage or negotiation power

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/users/erik/statuses/116589499491133311https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/users/erik/statuses/116589499491133311Sun, 17 May 2026 10:42:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to In a surprise to no one who has looked at the economics of cloud services before, I think a *lot* of people are in for a rude awakening. on Sun, 17 May 2026 05:50:39 GMT]]>@soph Ed himself previously said something like "8x-9x" but this sounds more like "40x-150x" which holy shit

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/valpackett/statuses/116588349960621971https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/valpackett/statuses/116588349960621971Sun, 17 May 2026 05:50:39 GMT