alt Hacker NewsI mean, if I imagine Anthropic giving away unlimited Sonnet 4.5 away at $20, I would still be paying the $200 for fable.
It is a bit like saying "why would you hire someone with a doctorate when you could get unlimited high school grads". How appealing that sounds depends on your needs.
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alex43578 • yesterday at 5:28 PM
It’s like how most people on here would want a loaded MacBook Pro or RTX 5090, but chromebooks and iGPUs do volume.
There’s absolutely a place for a lifestyle subscription to a sonnet model that you could just use everywhere all the time.
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drob518 • yesterday at 6:20 PM
Sure, but you’re undoubtedly the tip of the spear. Lots of people don’t need that.
vel0city • yesterday at 6:44 PM
What percentage of white collar work these days requires doctorate level thinking all the time?
Right, and while there are needs that require a doctorate, having unlimited high school grads would be immensely useful for many many tasks.
The ability levels of the cheap models are encroaching on the abilities of the frontier models faster than frontier models are expanding their abilities. If we haven't already, we will very soon reach a "good enough" state where having the "best" model matters less and less and less.
By analogy, if you buy a new computer, do you get the absolute fastest CPU available? Maybe, depending on your workload. But if you're 90% of the population, you get the cheapest one that has enough power to meet your expected workload, which is mid-range, not top of the line.