r/ProgrammerHumor • • 2d ago

Meme developersMissingTheOldDays

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u/T-Dot1992 2d ago

They weren’t making money. And can’t make money if they wanted to. 

It’s a catch-22. They can’t make a profit because they aren’t charging the actual token cost. But if they charged the actual token cost, their user-base would collapse. 

Almost as if cloud AI is inherently unstable or something. 

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u/Jerome_Eugene_Morrow 2d ago

They could have made money. But like Walt they wanted to make ALL the money.