[deadbabe]

I know how to drop a company’s token costs to zero: treat tokens as a utility same as internet and make engineers pay for it.

[scotty79]

I would easily pay a lot of money to have access to AI for my job. I actually do pay. If the cost was significant I'd just add it to hourly rate that I consider acceptable. Company always pays in the end, because company is the only entity with money in this setup.

[deadbabe]

You will be undercut easily by someone running a cheaper LLM setup.

[scotty79]

That depends entirely on how they and I are using tools available. There must be a sweet spot. Best person at finding that sweet spot wins on price. I'd be up for that.

[deadbabe]

It will trigger a race to the bottom. The sweeter the juice the better the squeeze.

[scotty79]

Isn't that the entire point of the economy and the free market? Finding out how cheaply things can be done and doing them?