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.

[soph@grrl.me]

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...

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]

Bluesky Social (bsky.app)

[valpackett@social.treehouse.systems]

@soph Ed himself previously said something like "8x-9x" but this sounds more like "40x-150x" which holy shit

[erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social]

@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

[ivor@social.ivor.org]

@soph "The first hit is free the next will have you down on your knees..."

[jwrm22@hsnl.social]

@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.

[melgu@norden.social]

@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“.