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		automatic6131 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The future of software development is software dev... These tools (e.g. Chatgpt pro) lose money at $200/month So expect, maybe, $1000 a month? Until your business is dependant on these LLMs. Then they can extract basically all your margin lol

lelele 18 days ago [–]

At a $1,000/month price point, wouldn't the economics start favoring buying GPUs and running local LLMs? Even if they're weaker, local models can still cover enough use cases to justify the switch.

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