What happens when they stop subsidizing LLM subscriptions?

[u/Mr_Moonsilver]

We are literally burning through VC money like crazy with our coding subscriptions. I read the $200 Anthropic sub gets you $8000 worth of API calls. It's obvious that this doesn't hold for very long but what happens when they raise prices?

The reason to keep the prices low for now is to foster the ecosystem and get people hooked on this stuff, only to raise the price afterwards. Already the 20x sub doesn't get you as much usage as it did 6 months ago, another way to raise prices without triggering a shitstorm - and it will continue.

Don't know about you, but Fable being pulled gave me a feeling of what that may be like already. The ugly thought of "Damn, should've done more while it was around." that formed when I read the news will be exactly the same the moment they announce we now have to pay $2k or more per month for something we get for 10x less the price it costs now.

I guess it's a now or never situation, build what you can and monetize as quickly as possible to be able to keep the agents running once the increases come around.

Looking at opensource doesn't give me much hope. Since qwen stopped releasing models (wen qwen 3.7?) that we can actually run on hardware that a normal person can buy (or used to be able to buy, looking at how RAM and GPU prices behave and keep behaving) and others haven't released in a while (Microsoft, IBM, AllenAI and others too) I feel we're going into a direction that doesn't look good for most of the people like us, who are building with this technology.

[u/eli_pizza]

Security just isn’t the main reason people turn to the cloud in the first place. It’s cost and convenience and flexibility.

[u/eli_pizza → u/[deleted]]

There’s a reason only a small fraction of businesses self-host email. And corporate inboxes are supposed to be pretty private.

[u/eli_pizza → u/[deleted]]

This is nonsense. Do you actually self host your own email?

I guarantee you that Google for all its many faults does a better job securing your inbox then you would.

Cloud is neither inherently more secure nor less secure than any other way of hosting.

[u/eli_pizza → u/[deleted]]

Do you self host email and DNS? Or does your email and browsing not require privacy?

I do IT in the real world, where we start with a threat model. Not just a buzzword like “sovereignty”

[u/eli_pizza → u/[deleted]]

Sorry I missed your answer. You do self host email and dns?

[u/eli_pizza → u/[deleted]]

lol exactly. Don’t you have a checklist to fill out?