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by 827a 109 days ago
> The top tier subscription prices are increasing exponentially

WILD graph that misrepresents what is happening.

There's a bunch of $20 subscriptions, and a bunch of $200 subscriptions. Devin has a $500 subscription. That's it.

The cost per unit of intelligence has been dropping every month. The cost per "completed task" has also been dropping. There is no sign of this reversing course. Graphing the price of a subscription, without taking into account what that subscription is getting you, is poor authorship.

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What's also wild is this being the first comment to mention it!

Although there is an underlying truth: using LLMs for large-context tasks like coding is still extremely expensive.

> The cost per "completed task" has also been dropping. There is no sign of this reversing course.

Didn’t happen for me.

On the Plus plan newer models reached the limit faster so less tasks where done until I had to wait 5 hours

I mean when it equated the $10 a month Copilot to Claude Max, I stopped taking the article seriously.