Turns out when the bills start rolling in you need the revenue to pay them. Here comes the bumpy ride

this_user 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

OpenAI and Anthropic are both planning IPOs this year. They are clearly trying to polish their finances before filing their S-1s. Because their advisors will have told them that it's going to be a very difficult sell at these valuations if they cannot at least present the idea of a path towards profitability.

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pupppet 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A few years from now we’ll probably look back and laugh at how AI used to be essentially free.

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ceroxylon 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

i've been using the API for a portion of my work to prepare for this and test to see how much it will cost in the long term, turns out that was the short term.

it is rough, but it has taught me to treat every prompt and process with care since i watch the pennies and dollars burn instead of tokens, which is a good habit to get into anyway

	▲	Incipient 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Copilot has said they'll be giving out previous months "if you did token pricing, it would cost $x" so a lot of us will have real numbers to actually anticipate our spend. Personally I'm anticipating agentic coding will be out of my price bracket (a single agent run costing US$20+ is far beyond what I can justify, especially with how often it fails). I'm planning on going back to optimised prompts on one-pass edits.
	▲	a10c 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I use pi (https://pi.dev/) as my coding agent which allowed you to use your subscription until Claude recently introduced extra usage and I was routinely using the equivalent of my Claude Max subscription in an hour multiple times a day. The writing is on the wall.