alt Hacker NewsWhoa. This looks both powerful and expensive.
My prediction is that, this time next year, top developers outside ai labs will be spending 50k USD+ on inference.
Within labs, I've heard spend is already far beyond this per developer.
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50k per month?!
If someone subsidize maybe, but if the companies need to pay no way, unless there is hard evidence of the return.
not sure how "top developers" are defined here, but there is huge diminishing return curve starts kicking in after $200/month price point for typical eng work.
I mean I don't think $50k is the ceiling, unless you're talking about actual cash out. Claude code subscriptions right now can easily clear you $25-35k a year in nominal value for $2400 out of pocket cost.
Given sufficient budget and scope, I could certainly productively burn a half million dollars in tokens a year or more. I think that's where we're headed anyway, buying a 2nd or 5th claude max subscription feels slightly excessive for personal usage, but at a corporate level...
> top developers outside ai labs will be spending 50k USD+ on inference
I think it is more like top companies, not top developers, and the problem with developers in top companies was and is - absolute majority of them are not actually directly working on things that increase revenue, so companies can spend a ton of money and see barely if any changes in the product and the bottom line, so companies, at least legacy ones will be reluctant to sponsor that long term.