[davikr]

A $20/month Codex user probably costs thousands of dollars in compute (for multiple providers). I think they just want to weather it over until compute is eventually cheap enough, has to be, otherwise it'll always be unsustainable.

[asdff]

Or the alternative long con: lock in enterprise customers and raise prices. Seriously that is the golden goose, big institutions will just buy like lemmings even if they are already buying the redundant competing product.

[davikr]

That might be the calculus. Well, I'll be glad to leech off whoever's offering the most amount of tokens, with the best models, for the cheapest price, and then they'll get some of my money and hopefully some bigger customers.

[add-sub-mul-div]

If they can wait it out a few more years imagine how many people will be fully dependent on it, and otherwise unskilled. Then they can charge whatever they want.

[prettyblocks]

It's the AWS/Serverless model.