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cdata
@cdata.earth

Extrapolating from my Fable usage during the "First Taste is Free" period, I will be on the hook for about $6,000/mo in order to keep using it.

cdata@cdata.earth

This time last year I was a $20/mo user. Today I'm a $200/mo user. I wonder what I'll be in for this time next year.

Ingvar Stepanyan
@rreverser.com

Spent about $20 USD of my own money on AI services so far (total). Still plenty of free services / models and sponsorships for dabbling in side projects and personal tasks.

cdata
@cdata.earth

That's admirable, but it's also somewhat of a privilege to be able to say that. Some of us are trapped in a Red Queen's Race, you know?

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cdata
@cdata.earth

Personally I'm drowning in a sea of other people's slop. If I didn't have my own slop machine to burn through it all, I would never get anything done. I run 27B-ish class MoE models at home. The hardware was expensive (and costs more every day). That class of models is not sufficient to the task.

cdata
@cdata.earth

For better or worse, the nature of what it means to produce software as a collective exercise has changed dramatically. If you don't feel the pressure to use these tools, I expect you are working in a sheltered niche.