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by KolibriFly 14 days ago
It seems to me that both sides are starting to drift into extremes. Some promised the replacement of half of office workers, while others are now saying that AI doesn’t create any value at all. The reality is somewhere in between
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Also the article seems to be mixing two different things. The pricing as in

>allowed to burn thousands of dollars of tokens on a $39-a-month subscription

and whether the AI is worth it if you do pay what it costs.

I always thought the burn thousands of dollars of tokens without paying bit was unsustainable and harmful for the environment, electricity bills, investors and the like.

But I think it can do worthwhile stuff even if you pay. Like a small job I did was to get the emails of conference attendees off a website. It was tricky as they didn't want to be scrapped so I chatted to gemini and it helped figure out how to use tampermonkey and wrote a script. It was probably <$1 tokens and saved a couple of hours of mucking around. There must be a lot of things like that.