Monetization is coming. They'll tell companies, AI is replacing your workers, so it is still worth to pay 100K/year for the license, as those AI are not going to jump to other job, get sick, be late, complain, require free coffee and so on.
Soon the times of AI for $20/$200 a month will be long gone.
Get people hooked, tell them spending time coding is no longer needed, let their skills deteriorate, tell them they need cough up for a licence to do their job
Forcing developers to pay for models that were build on code they scraped scott-free
A tax to do their job that developers are jumping at the chance to pay
Everybody's finally realising that node dependencies are a threat, but letting these AI companies gatekeep the industry is a bandwagon people are scrambling towards
> Forcing developers to pay for models that were build on code they scraped scott-free.
Yes this makes me sad behound explanation. Specially when I see open source developers happily using these tools. These companies stole your, free, hard work and charge you a subscription!! Not to speak about them torrenting books and (most likely) training on private repos.
This and devs paying a subscription to use a tool that is marketed as trying to replace them.
I had 150$ monthly budget thatbI used for various open source projects and I've cut that entirelly.
> Forcing developers to pay for models that were build on code they scraped scott-free
That's also caused by some very smart (even brilliant) developers (you can see many of them in this very thread) choosing to be oblivious about all this and bury us all under, hoping that they'll be among the last ones to go. Writing this down I realise that they maybe aren't all that smart.
As someone noted here recently - use the frontier models as much as u can, while you can.
Thankfully, we have Chinese models we can use for a fraction of the price.
Not everyone needs a Ferrari to go for a weekly shopping.
A Ferrari will likely lap you when you’re racing, though, and the market and the economy is a race. You’ll be facing a question soon, or your employer will, whether to spend a significant chunk of free cash on fable-class tokens or on literally anything else instead - wages and salaries included.
<< You’ll be facing a question soon, or your employer will
Maybe? If you talk to executives, the impression that I am getting is that they tend to be somewhat misinformed at best, which, yes, is bound to result in some really bad decisions down the road. But, and it is not a small but, the ones I did talk to ( and, amusingly, those are the ones with strong opinions ) don't seem to have a lot, um, practical exposure to this tech beyond what they heard at the watercooler. Honestly, it is kinda infuriating. And all this before we get to how companies want to say they use AI, but also keep cost down.
Yeah, sure. In the same way I can see only Ferraris driving as taxis, company cars, transport vehicles, used by post, delivery services ...
You and your work are not that special, you are not participating in car races, and you don't need a Ferrari.