>At some point they're going to drop the real prices in your lab and you're going to have to figure out how to pay that much or pay someone else a lot less. Better to get a handle on it now.

So just wait until that happens? What's the point of scrimping and saving now? Not to mention you're paying for a premium in the meantime.

I don’t disagree really and it is mostly what I am doing. I put probably like 20% of my work through open weights.

It does make me sharper I think. If you only ever use claude or whatever you don’t even really know exactly how tied to it you are.

Funny enough the drug dealer thing still holds. A deal’s a deal if you’re going to buy it anyway.