Coding with LLMs (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) is often presented as the ‘killer app’ for Generative AI. But looking at data, it seems the one piece of the puzzle missing is actual cost. …
I used to think like you, and I am still pro local LLMs - I use them as tutors for areas I don’t know much about, and since I use the output just as a guide and implement it on my own I quickly realize if something isn’t right.
We will see - when OpenAI and Anthropic rush towards IPO this year, which was made very likely because SpaceX has upped the tempo - what the real costs are. If this article and others I’ve read in the last year are correct, and the prices have to go up x10 to break even, then we are in for a wild ride. I’m only grateful that for now they don’t get lumped into the index funds.
I used to think like you, and I am still pro local LLMs - I use them as tutors for areas I don’t know much about, and since I use the output just as a guide and implement it on my own I quickly realize if something isn’t right.
We will see - when OpenAI and Anthropic rush towards IPO this year, which was made very likely because SpaceX has upped the tempo - what the real costs are. If this article and others I’ve read in the last year are correct, and the prices have to go up x10 to break even, then we are in for a wild ride. I’m only grateful that for now they don’t get lumped into the index funds.