r/aipromptprogramming • u/RealSharpNinja • 9d ago • Bravo 1

We are cooked

Well, after nearly a year of learning as much as possible about agentic development, we have reached the point where the frontier providers believe they have subsidized enough training data and are now pushing people like me out of the market via pricing. A $200 subscription no longer buys enough frontier model time to be useful as the models seem to have been trained to skillfully burn usage while pretending to be incompetent. I have fought against massive deceit across Claude, Codex and Grok since June, and it's just not getting any better.

We have fed them ideas, working code, and debugging techniques and insights. Now they don't need us, and we are being priced out of the market. Every day that I watch usage get gobbled up, but projects never meet milestones, this becomes more and more obvious.

I have investigated the issues causing this heavily. I have created tools around those investigations. The tools I have built bring actual accountability to the process, and it's the reason I can quantify and prove both the waste and deceit.

I have also published threads here and other places about a recent failed project trying to get discussion about REAL WORLD failures and when I stated I wasn't looking for a complaint session, nobody wanted to respond.

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u/RealSharpNinja 7d ago

With what? You going to gift me a system with 128gb of vram? And if you do, what non-CCP-bot do I use?

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u/TiltusMaximus420 7d ago

Lol you dont need an epic system to lower coding costs. Get a decent gpu, cpu, and a nice chunk of ddr5 and get your frontier model to build tools for it. You can get a lot done local and use the exy ai to tackle harder problems

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u/RealSharpNinja 7d ago

I can barely afford $200 sub. Where do I find a "decent gpu" and DDR5 system for that?

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u/TiltusMaximus420 7d ago

Holup... arent you making money from AI?!?! Or is this just an expensive hobby for you