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by IanCal 24 days ago
Doesn’t it flip around for small scale? Paying 100x the cost for something, all in, it’s cheaper to rent for small workloads like 10m/day.

At 10x you have to be at hours per day and 5x you’re at 4h.

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the math is odd.

Paying 2k for something that you use 100 hours of is quite expensive. Having the capability built into your existing silicon which you would buy for 1k is cheap. Paying 200 dollars a month for 2 years give a present value of $4200 dollars. Meaning that that paying 2k upfront cuts your overall spend in half.

I spent 6k on codex last month which, if repeated, implies a present value of ~144k.