God bless these generously benevolent corporations, giving us such amazing services for the low low price of only $200 per month. I'm going to subscribe right now! I almost feel bad, it's like I'm stealing from them.

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handfuloflight 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That $200 a month is getting me $2000 a month in API equivalent tokens.

I used to spend $200+ an hour on a single developer. I'm quite sure that benevolence was a factor when they submitted me an invoice, since there is no real transparency if I was being overbilled or not or that the developer acted in my best interest rather than theirs.

I'll never forget that one contractor who told me he took a whole 40 hours to do something he could have done in less than that, specifically because I allocated that as an upperbound weekly budget to him.

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bakugo 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> That $200 a month is getting me $2000 a month in API equivalent tokens.

Do you ever feel bad for basically robbing these poor people blind? They're clearly losing so much money by giving you $1800 in FREE tokens every month. Their business can't be profitable like this, but thankfully they're doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.

	▲	handfuloflight 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not sure that you actually expect to be taken seriously if you're going to assert that these companies don't have costs themselves to deliver their services.