alt Hacker NewsI don’t know about you, but for me materially useful AI costs around $10,000/mo in tokens. But it is very useful.
Claude subscriptions help, but only if I come in with the expertise to build the entire system around the model and I don’t mind the whole thing grinding to a halt when my session limit is saturated. Anyone selling the system off the shelf is going to be charging API rates. Computers were cheap in comparison.
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datsci_est_2015 • yesterday at 10:21 PM
Holy shit. I’m spending 2 orders of magnitude less per month and still getting good value. But, I’m not an AI maximalist.
If it costs 2x-3x the median household income to be an AI maximalist that definitely puts some comments on this forum into context.
I can’t speak for everyone, but I would intuitively venture to guess there would be some greater than marginal productivity benefits from say, a $200/m Claude sub for each employee in many organizations outside of tech.
Perhaps they’re all on the $20/m plan which is useless?