alt Hacker NewsNone of the free models offer anything even remotely close to the output you can get on a relatively inexpensive model.
I think that AI is going to become just another utility people pay to stay relevant. Same as their internet, electricity or gas.
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nemomarx • yesterday at 11:19 PM
Will they do it at utility / commodity prices though, or the inflated costs we see now?
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shimman • today at 12:45 AM
The free models are good enough for any work (very little) that benefits from LLMs.
GHanku • yesterday at 11:43 PM
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amanaplanacanal • yesterday at 11:52 PM
> another utility people pay to stay relevant
I'm guessing that might be so in certain professions, but I would expect the employer to pay for that. For the rest of us, it seems unlikely. At least for me, I don't have a need of a device to generate text for me. And I bet most people are are in the same boat as me.
Sonnet 4.6 is free and works really well for coding for me from just pasting `tree` and `cat` output directly in the chat window on claude.ai