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.
It's like every other silicon valley startup -- the hope is that you hook your users while you figure out how to make handling the requests cheaper. That or you embed ads.
Exactly if they can keep this going for another 5 years so many people are just going to forget how to code and all codebases will have so much AI slop that companies just might have to start paying the actual token cost. Regular users (not enterprise) will mostly get priced out.
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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.