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		renegade-otter 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI coding assistants are getting worse? Inference costs have in fact been crashing, going from astronomical to... lower. That said, I am not sure that this indicator alone tells the whole story, if not hides it - sort of like EBITDA.

Kuinox 3 months ago [–]

I think there will still be cheap inference, what will rise in costs will be frontier model subscriptions. This is the thing that is not profitable.

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