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points by piokoch 4 days ago | 0 comments
Redoing is almost free today, you can try to redo a lot of stuff, try to gain traction/publicity and maybe that will be your solution that will stick. People were trying this strategy with a lot of stuff (think smartphone cases) but in case of software this is soo easy and dead cheap.

I see the outbreak of PDF readers, AI TUI harnesses, etc.

[–] geraneum 4 days ago
> Redoing is almost free today

Can I get some of those free tokens you’re having?

[–] zamadatix 3 days ago
You may have missed the bulk of the "free" ride: ChatGPT Pro 200 is both being imminently nerfed (even for those who signed up before) and reaching the end of a month of reset candy as they quell that backlash/end a month of "ailu major features or resets". Yes, it was $200... but hear me out first!

In the last 5 days alone I've had the equivalent of 2+ years of ChatGPT Plus Codex quota given for free via resets. I literally leave my PC running in Codex with 8+ Sol 6.1 Max sessions jamming away most of the day writing a desktop environment from scratch (and other things) just because the reset tokens will evaporate if I don't use them. I've even had days with > 1 billion tokens used where it was reset by the morning.

That said, who knows what free ride will appear with AI capital next month!

[–] geraneum 3 days ago
You’re right. As you noted, “free” is not the same as heavily subsidized. The chickens will have to come home to roost.
[–] zamadatix 3 days ago
The more optimistic hope is that actual prices continue to drop at the rate they have been and then by the time the subsidization runs out (even if that's not far from now) it's because there is nothing for the chickens to come home and roost to anymore.

After all, a year ago and doing these same tasks would just fall on its face. The hard part of the problem is solved, now it's not even "do LLMs continue to get better" but "do LlMs keep getting cheaper".