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The squeeze could not happen soon enough 😌
For real. This whole “AI/LLM” nonsense could’ve been a nothing burger if they correctly charged it at the get go… Ah, well. Venture capital is suckers, I guess?
The problem is though they made it basically free. And that was a mistake cause people don't like paying for stuff once it was free.
From what I've seen, the AI companies don't even know what to charge. For example, claude.ai finally made an API for user costs and we get this fun fact: