I've spent a grand total of $25 on AI ever, so apparently my answer is $25. But I'm not a big time software dev like the rest of you.

When I bought my last GPU, running AI models locally was a consideration though not the only one, and I have it set up but haven't used it much yet. I mostly use the free tiers of ChatGPT or Google to write the occasional script for me. I guess they're going to have to inject a truly unfathomable number of ads to get their money's worth.

I have a feeling my experience is closer to an average persons' than a dev, but it doesn't seem like they'll be able to monetize just from devs even if each one is spending thousands a month.

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Mwntalhwalth 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not a coder but now work way faster than the coder I pay, stuff breaks but it's tenable and it's easier to get things to completion as the harnesses get better.

Don't give up just keep trying you can truly build personally life changing things. Don't look at it purely from a how do I sell this lense, just empower yourself with these tools while the getting is good

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nancyminusone 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I have made life changing things with it, just not anything so life changing I'd consider paying more than $25. Stingy bastard, I am.

	▲	Mwntalhwalth 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I hear you there.... too many years on my side paying over priced tools for the agencies, I'm well normalized on monthly subs and you can't compare these things to what we used to pay for. I've dropped 90% of the tools I used to sub to. But like others downstream have said no ones ever going to pay 500 to 1000 month open source models will just eat that margin up and flip the economics so ads it is lol.