Currently I‘m sharing a premium family subscription with as many users as Google allows which is like 6€ for each user.
If Google ever cracks down on sharing or this gets much more expensive (because even 6€ is too much IMO) we’re probably just gonna cancel the subscription altogether.
Also worth comparing to graphics cards here. After the crypto mining boom, prices didn’t drop significantly. Expensive cards were just the new baseline because gamers need graphics cards and do not have many alternatives to look elsewhere.
I see similar comments every now and then. What exactly is missing here for you? There’s a community for almost anything except some niche topics
Thank you. This also removed the incredibly obnoxious AI chat on the side that my ad blocker didn’t catch.
Renting out capacity sounds like another good opportunity for the LLM money circlejerk to make another round
As a freelance dev it’s not quite as bad now but it’s insane to see that some of my clients think I got replaced by a machine now only to show me a buggy vibe coded mess of an app that is poorly designed and works half the time at best. I like some of the LLM tools but it’s important to understand their abilities and limitations especially in regards to future capabilities as there are hard limits to how capable they can become.
Way too many people think the tools are smart because they can „talk“ and these same people do not understand any of the underlying tech.
Some of my clients send ChatGPT written instructions now that are missing half the context of what I‘m actually doing.
„Many of you will be laid off but that’s a sacrifice I‘m willing to make“
That sucks. For us it’s been working great for a few years already but we’re also all based in the same city, usually share a lot with each other, often meet (and log into the same wifi) and possibly most importantly, we’re based in the EU where tech companies are usually less anti-consumer as they’re more worried about fines.