alt Hacker News> On June 23, we’ll remove Fable 5 from those plans. Using it after that will require usage credits.
We've entered the phase where only companies will be able to afford state-of-the-art models.
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but we’re going to get a 90% cost reduction in the next 18 months… right? Right guys? Sam Altman wouldn’t lie right?
most people can afford it for a few special projects now and then. but for me, I have been trying to avoid Opus as a daily driver for a couple of versions.
People making high-end salaries can afford Fable for critical parts of their projects though.
I hear you, but with the hype surrounding Mythos the demand is going to be insane. I'm already hitting server errors in claude code.
Established companies welcome pricing that reduces the potential for competition, if coding is a primary barrier.
It's not a conspiracy. There's a finite amount of compute available, and they will sell it to the highest bidder. If another company can produce the same intelligence for cheaper, then they will drive the price down.
Just wait until that other company hard-codes Fable into silicon and then it will be cheaper.
Looks like a marxist revolution is soon going to be on the mind of a lot of programmers. We've finally reached the point where the "means of production" in software are back in the hands of the bourgeoisie. It was good while it lasted. But now that only the wealthy can afford access to the best models, software development is starting to look like most other industries, no longer a place where some dude from nowhere can build something cool from his basement because he will be competing with huge companies with unlimited access to those models.
Only companies can afford MRI machines, and that's okay.
Guess we'll see what OpenAI does with their next model release -- but this move is doing nothing to get me to come back to Claude after switching away due to their reliability issues.
In a way I relish the opportunity to just make do with cheap Chinese models, massage my prompts, and go back to coding by hand. If this is how it's going to be, screw 'em.
I don't make money on the code I am writing right now. I really don't like where this trend might go.
Something I never thought I would utter: Here's hoping for china to surprise us.
These models are just tools. The economics of many tools only make sense for corporate buyers.