Fuck AI

EEE all over again.

How fast did their skills decrease? We didn't really even start hearing much about aAI until about a year ago. It was all theoretical up until then. They should be able to level up their skills again pretty quickly.

Problem is there is tons of competition and anyone with a video card can run models on their PC for the cost of electricity.

The whole point of cloud was that renting wholesale infrastructure is cheaper and less hassle than building your own.

There's no way anything but a sliver of dependent companies are capable of hosting their current LLM usage.

But I think it’s more likely they’ll just switch to free, self-hosted AI models.

Implying anyone left there will even have the know-how to set one up

Still not “free” even if self-hosted and I would think perf and accuracy would be noticeably worse.

My company started using AI in coding process a lot more now but its only because the AI responses are useful 80% of the time. If its lower than that, not worth the time to use for most tasks.

Chinese model labs are still doing token (monthly) bundles, too. Core problem is that bundles only work when most people don't use up the limit. US models have high cash burn and low margins even at high token prices.

Not to mention China could subsidise them just to pressure the US companies even more.

I wonder if they are timing it for the price increase to let them stick to the promotions that cost them more before pulling the rug. Could even be a win to open source them if the US government tries to block it.

I feel for the employees whose lives will be tumulted by their moronic management who went “all in”

They've literally never had this much more, proportionally. If this isn't too much, there's no such thing.

Money is 100% wasted on the rich.

it started shit.

Microsoft has already raised prices with their Github Copilot service. In some cases the new price is 27x higher. And the actually useful models are only available in the super expensive plan (and then also incur high fees for actually using it).

How do you enshittify shit?

Man, comparing AI to a pet rock is crazy delusional.

You missed on a lot with a pet rock, my daughter discovered them just a few years ago and was completely in heaven from the idea. Perhaps, the similar with AI?

How does this work when “good enough” AI like Deepseek V4, GLM and such are so dirt cheap they’re basically free for businesses? And available from tons of providers, or even self hostable?

Typically what separates enterprise-grade products and services from alternatives is a contract with an SLA... but that generally means there's some contractual requirements for the reliability and productivity of the product or service. I'm not sure that any of the overhyped chatbots are reliable enough to support such contractual obligations, or that there's a useful way to measure their productivity.

They're going to try to stick taxpayers with the debt in a "too big to fail" way, and the current administration will help them.

Apparently that post is gone?