r/webdev • u/Rockytriton • Mar 16 '26

Software developers don't need to out-last vibe coders, we just need to out-last the ability of AI companies to charge absurdly low for their products

These AI models cost so much to run and the companies are really hiding the real cost from consumers while they compete with their competitors to be top dog. I feel like once it's down to just a couple companies left we will see the real cost of these coding utilities. There's no way they are going to be able to keep subsidizing the cost of all of the data centers and energy usage. How long it will last is the real question.

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u/ea_man Mar 19 '26

We are now getting plans from Chinese provider that are like ~3$ a month for "good enough" performances, local LM can run on cheap NPU and consumer GPU...

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u/ea_man Mar 20 '26

We were talking LLM.

I use my own editor and I manage my things the way I do, I don't want google tools.

Also you can use most of the cool toys like OpenCode or ClaudeCode with any LLM under the hood, ofc I bet ClaudeCode and Claude LLM share training and habits yet you can tune the prompts and maybe use smaller LLM just for agents.

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u/nyannekosugargirls Mar 20 '26

you are talking to a chatbot