We have been gorging ourselves at an all-you-can-eat buffet, but the menu is about to change. AI tools that have been discounted will soon start charging based on your usage, raising serious questions about our appetite to pay.
The answer could have big implications for the future of artificial intelligence (AI).
And the AI Tech bros aren't doing too well in the stock market at present.
Think harder, AI
They're about to learn a hard lesson
If experienced staff are pushed out because essential work is done by AI , it will be hard to go back – a discount can expire a lot faster than it takes to rebuild a workforce.
Looking forward to the downfall of companies that fired most of their staff, or didn't hire any, assuming an LLM would do the job.
for devs (ie the only part of the bubble that is seeing any significant usage), qwen 3.8 and deepseek are fine for %95 of use cases.
there are a bazillion providers that will sell you tokens for peanuts. mix that in with self hosting where you have the resources to do so (its docker containers and a bit or orchestration not rocket science) and we will just see the market normalise to something closer to web hosting.
...and windows monkey IT departments will just buy whatever microsoft is selling.
that future is not worth 1/1000th of whatever todays AI hype cycle is getting shoved down our throats.
</pulling some shit out of my arse>
services:
llama:
image: ghcr.io/ggml-org/llama.cpp:server-cuda
container_name: llama
env_file:
- .env.llama
ports:
- "8081:8081"
expose:
- '8081'
volumes:
- ./models:/models
networks:
- proxy
deploy:
resources:
reservations:
devices:
- driver: nvidia
count: all
capabilities: [gpu]
We will never pay for AI but there are millions of people who will. Downvote me all you like but it truly is inevitable
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