[dakolli]

I promise you you're just going to continue to light money on fire. Don't fall for this token madness, the bigger your project gets, the less capable the llm will get and the more you spend per request on average. This is literally all marketing tricks by inference providers. Save your money and code it yourself, or use very inexpensive llm methods if you must.

I think we are going to start hearing stories of people going into thousands in CC debt because they were essentially gambling with token usage thinking they would hit some startup jackpot.

[dagss]

Compared to the salary I loose by not taking a consulting gig for half a year, these $800 arent't all that much. (I guess depending on definition of bootstrap, mine might not be, as I support myself with saved consulting income.)

Startup is a gamble with or without the LLM costs.

I have been coding for 20 years, I have a good feel for how much time I would have spent without LLM assistance. And if LLMs vanish from the face of the earth tomorrow, I still saved myself that time.

[dakolli]

Well if you've been "coding" for 20 years you should have known after a pretty short period of time it doesn't save you any time.

[otabdeveloper4]

You can rent a GPU server and run your own Qwen models.

It's 90 percent the same thing as Claude but with flat-rate costs.