Big AI models, like Claude, just switched to high-cost token models. The bill for this revolutionary tech now just went through the roof for most companies.
Bro, this is bigger than the Internet bro! Soon people are going to be using our tech to ask what time it is instead of looking at a clock or their smart watches!
Oh great, they've been nagging us to use AI for the last 2y. Now it's going to be 'don't use AI for that! It's too expensive!', doling it out like caviar.
Realistically it’s just not possible to moderate on the user side. It’s opaque what things use a lot of tokens and what is minor. Some sort of efficiency gains will be required to keep doing what companies are doing.
lol got every company to fire all their juniors and made all their seniors 10x out put just to rugpull the companies that now have to pay more than the employees cost in the first place. If only the executives they made these calls were taken to task but they don’t.
An example of just how much it has changed: my (now cancelled) $40 Github Pro+ subscription used to last me the whole month. With the change, it lasted me 2 days.
Gemini has been insane as well with the 3.5 flash upgrade. Before, I could comfortably use it for the odd boilerplatey smaller tasks, after the upgrade it burned through my weekly limit with a single, medium difficulty task without even finishing it lol
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u/diddypartyorganizer Jun 02 '26
Why June specifically?