[aftergibson]

Of course. Were in the burning VCs cash by the truckload phase. And inference isn't getting cheaper. I'd argue this is the worst its ever been in terms of over extending a business and they might not be able to enshitificate fast enough.

[justahuman74]

Inference will get much much cheaper. We're paying $30000 for a top of the line gpu right now, but that's only because everyone insists on buying nvidia, so nvidia has full incentive to charge the absolute maximum.

Long term that vendor lock in will go away and prices will go down to something reasonable.

Long ago CPUs were super expensive too, now they're so cheap we put them in toothbrushes

[ares623]

> Long ago CPUs were super expensive too, now they're so cheap we put them in toothbrushes

Long ago GPUs were already affordable. We used to buy them to play _games_!

[p_ing]

A Voodoo2 12MB was only $600 in today's money!