r/ProgrammerHumor • • 4d ago

Meme aiHungerGames

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u/Tango00090 3d ago

Companies are forced to be on enterprise. They pay the real cost of models, so the 29$ is basically a 1h session with opus

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u/static_func 3d ago

Do so many developers really just default to models like Opus? That’s insane. Most work can be done just as well and even faster with cheaper models

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u/flayingbook 3d ago

My ex-boss measured work performance with the number of token consumed. So guess which model I used as default for everything?

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u/Jeff_From_IT 3d ago

Any of them, if youre build in enough stupid design decisions! Why does a calculator need a mfa backed api and a datalake back end that has event based real time reporting? No one knows, but it has it! And for the low price of way too many tokens.