Currently, yes. However, if you build your business on highly subsidised temporary prices, you are probably like the CEOs that can’t think further than their shareholders. If you believe there will be flat rates in the end I have a bridge to sell to you.
I currently use what would be around half my salary at the currently listed full API prices (which I doubt we’d ever have to pay but lets assume we did), and a decent portion of that is experimentation, learning, wastage etc. I could cut it down to a third of my salary if I was more conservative. And I’m building 3x more features than I was without it. That’s a good deal even at full price, it’s just even better now with the subscription which is why the smart thing for any engineer to do right now is to take advantage of those temporary heavily subsidised prices to get as good as they can at agent accelerated coding
Those aren’t full prices though. You are aware of that, aren’t you? Nor are the current “full API” prices necessarily truly enough to cover full costs. It is not unlikely that even those are far away from profitability. If they weren’t, why all the financial gymnastics?
The real costs will only be known after the bubble bursts and the venture capital billions are going to dry up and the whole circular financing schemes are falling apart that are massively distorting numbers.
If the current subsidised rates are a good deal for you, nothing wrong with that. Just don’t make decisions that are binding you to what is doomed to explode in prices in the foreseeable future. Also, if all that productive is going through the roof with AI, why is software generally getting worse and buggier. Are all those big tech companies getting suddenly more incompetent, just when they are all moving to processes that are heavily using LLMs?
Currently, yes. However, if you build your business on highly subsidised temporary prices, you are probably like the CEOs that can’t think further than their shareholders. If you believe there will be flat rates in the end I have a bridge to sell to you.
I currently use what would be around half my salary at the currently listed full API prices (which I doubt we’d ever have to pay but lets assume we did), and a decent portion of that is experimentation, learning, wastage etc. I could cut it down to a third of my salary if I was more conservative. And I’m building 3x more features than I was without it. That’s a good deal even at full price, it’s just even better now with the subscription which is why the smart thing for any engineer to do right now is to take advantage of those temporary heavily subsidised prices to get as good as they can at agent accelerated coding
Those aren’t full prices though. You are aware of that, aren’t you? Nor are the current “full API” prices necessarily truly enough to cover full costs. It is not unlikely that even those are far away from profitability. If they weren’t, why all the financial gymnastics?
The real costs will only be known after the bubble bursts and the venture capital billions are going to dry up and the whole circular financing schemes are falling apart that are massively distorting numbers.
If the current subsidised rates are a good deal for you, nothing wrong with that. Just don’t make decisions that are binding you to what is doomed to explode in prices in the foreseeable future. Also, if all that productive is going through the roof with AI, why is software generally getting worse and buggier. Are all those big tech companies getting suddenly more incompetent, just when they are all moving to processes that are heavily using LLMs?