But the tokens or credits are gone. MacBook stays. You can run other models on the same MacBook. What I read people burn every month on saas… for that money you break even on that MacBook in 5 months.

Edit: it’s not just “data privacy”, when you are using Claude, you are shipping EVERYTHING to Anthropic. It’s crazy.

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wilsonnb3 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Companies are already shipping everything to Microsoft or Google and 17 other companies, just the cost of doing business.

	▲	throw1234567891 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sure, but no one gets everything. Just that one.
	▲	DANmode 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That’s at today-prices. If the cost doubles, or 4x, which is seems to need to for them to go profitable, what then?

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wahnfrieden 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's much slower, and often quantized