alt Hacker NewsMonetization is coming. They'll tell companies, AI is replacing your workers, so it is still worth to pay 100K/year for the license, as those AI are not going to jump to other job, get sick, be late, complain, require free coffee and so on.
Soon the times of AI for $20/$200 a month will be long gone.
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AI for $20/month won't ever go away, but it won't be the absolute latest and greatest frontier model.
Most of us don't need a model that can prove the Riemann hypothesis or Goldbach's conjecture in order to get work done.
I've been saying this since the beginning, the rug pull is coming. If these models can eventually replace a human worker, there is no reason these companies won't charge (and get away with it) very close to a typical SWE salary.
It would not surprise me one bit to see anywhere from $80k-$100k/seat pricing.
As someone noted here recently - use the frontier models as much as u can, while you can.
Thankfully, we have Chinese models we can use for a fraction of the price.
Not everyone needs a Ferrari to go for a weekly shopping.
Get people hooked, tell them spending time coding is no longer needed, let their skills deteriorate, tell them they need cough up for a licence to do their job
Forcing developers to pay for models that were build on code they scraped scott-free
A tax to do their job that developers are jumping at the chance to pay
Everybody's finally realising that node dependencies are a threat, but letting these AI companies gatekeep the industry is a bandwagon people are scrambling towards