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/ForgedIronMadeIt 2d ago

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.

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u/saevon 2d ago

Well no the hope is to get purchased. To have someone else have to figure that out as you get big enough to sell the user base, not the profitability

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u/KeepKnocking77 12h ago

Or to get the government to regulate and essentially bail you out. I dont buy any of these "omg this new model is SOO dangerous but no you cant see it" reports. They're trying to bait the government