People love to flex by using the API costs for their subscription tokens.

I personally find it ridiculous. The cost is what you paid, not what someone else could have paid. Markets and all that.

It would be like using spot instances on AWS but flexing by boasting about how much on-demand $$ compute you used.

Assuming he used $400,000 in tokens, but used subs

I wonder how much AI companies lost on this?

Edit: not that I’m worried about them, I’m just curious

Most of it was wasted on OpenAI tokens. It actually cost them $24k USD according to the github description.

No that's the theoretical token value cost based on chaining multiple 20x subs.

An absurd amount. The cost wouldn't exceed $500 under a subscription model.

Sibling dead comment said it already but that's likely an estimate of what it would cost via API and in practice it was a few hundred or thousand dollars of subscription fees.

$420,000 worth of tokens, though I'm pretty sure he used subs.

> I did over $400,000 in API priced tokens

i'd bet this is a few subscriptions over a few months rather than paying directly for tokens.

I wonder how that cost compares to paying a human programmer to produce the same end result.

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