Can also say the year that subscriptions go down, because now you can finally build your own systems exactly to your liking. Save money and have something that works just for you. LLMs are awesome.
good question. maintenance is cheap with tools like astra/opus. also, these aren't production level applications, so I don't need to worry about it being "perfect" (though there's no such thing)
What happens when these companies decide to start increasing the cost/token, exceeding the cost of hiring an engineer or paying for an external service in the first place?
Cost per intelligence-adjusted token has been in free-fall since GPT-3 landed five years ago [0]. I see no compelling reason to think we'll see that trend suddenly stop, much less reverse.
0. "The cost of achieving a given level of AI performance has fallen about 47% per quarter since 2023, or 13× per year."
<a href="https://epoch.ai/publications/the-plunging-price-of-thought" rel="nofollow">https://epoch.ai/publications/the-plunging-price-of-thought
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0. "The cost of achieving a given level of AI performance has fallen about 47% per quarter since 2023, or 13× per year." <a href="https://epoch.ai/publications/the-plunging-price-of-thought" rel="nofollow">https://epoch.ai/publications/the-plunging-price-of-thought
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