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Now ask those friends how much they would pay for GenAI. ChatGPT is free. A VR headset is hundreds of dollars for the most entry level, crypto is literally mon

Now ask those friends how much they would pay for GenAI. ChatGPT is free. A VR headset is hundreds of dollars for the most entry level, crypto is literally money, etc.

mewpmewp2 3y ago
Although I probably spend up to $700 or so on AI tools monthly. I feel like I get multiples of value out of that. Mainly it allows me to build side projects significantly faster. My salaried workplace output is accelerated so I have more time to work on side projects, I can do more side projects in similar amount of time, I can do consultation on the side, which allows me to bill for much more than $700. Copilot gives enough energy to be able to code 12h+ a day. Usually those little things that Copilot auto completes for you, really stack up in terms of being mentally exhausting. But I can be in a "big picture" role, and think in terms of that, while Copilot does the coding for me, I will just check the code, rearrange something if required. It is like I'm more of in a CTO or CEO role of my side projects and have this extra coder that I'm doing reviews for. I probably bill around 60% of my salaried work freelancing on the side, and I wouldn't bother to do this freelancing without GPT, so for me it has directly contributed to 60% increase in income. I think people who aren't willing to spend on that, either don't understand how to multiply their output from it or don't understand how to make multiplied output into effective income.
- iLoveOncall 3y ago
  $700? What do you even pay for??? I don't think I'd be able to spend even $200 on GenAI even trying hard. I'm interested to see which tools warrant this kind of money for an individual. I imagine ChatGPT 4 and CoPilot but I can't think of anything else.
  - mewpmewp2 3y ago
    I have subscriptions to many different AI services, from Sona, Gemini, Perplexity to others, many I have just tried out, but of course they are not the main cost. My largest costs are related to OpenAI API. I use OpenAI API to go over my data, create embeddings of it, reorganise things, scrape data, standardize and analyse data, etc. I have a personal journal/assistant type of thing that I use to chat with, or help me make decisions, sanity check myself - it has a prompt filled with various context it can search from embeddings. Like the people I know, the projects I'm working on, the goals I have in life, etc. GPT goes over all the data and does summaries, organises, adds better search keywords for potential embedding callbacks.

Now ask those friends how much they would pay for GenAI. ChatGPT is free. A VR headset is hundreds of dollars for the most entry level, crypto is literally money, etc.

mewpmewp2 3y ago

Although I probably spend up to $700 or so on AI tools monthly. I feel like I get multiples of value out of that. Mainly it allows me to build side projects significantly faster. My salaried workplace output is accelerated so I have more time to work on side projects, I can do more side projects in similar amount of time, I can do consultation on the side, which allows me to bill for much more than $700. Copilot gives enough energy to be able to code 12h+ a day. Usually those little things that Copilot auto completes for you, really stack up in terms of being mentally exhausting. But I can be in a "big picture" role, and think in terms of that, while Copilot does the coding for me, I will just check the code, rearrange something if required. It is like I'm more of in a CTO or CEO role of my side projects and have this extra coder that I'm doing reviews for. I probably bill around 60% of my salaried work freelancing on the side, and I wouldn't bother to do this freelancing without GPT, so for me it has directly contributed to 60% increase in income. I think people who aren't willing to spend on that, either don't understand how to multiply their output from it or don't understand how to make multiplied output into effective income.

iLoveOncall 3y ago
$700? What do you even pay for??? I don't think I'd be able to spend even $200 on GenAI even trying hard. I'm interested to see which tools warrant this kind of money for an individual. I imagine ChatGPT 4 and CoPilot but I can't think of anything else.
- mewpmewp2 3y ago
  I have subscriptions to many different AI services, from Sona, Gemini, Perplexity to others, many I have just tried out, but of course they are not the main cost. My largest costs are related to OpenAI API. I use OpenAI API to go over my data, create embeddings of it, reorganise things, scrape data, standardize and analyse data, etc. I have a personal journal/assistant type of thing that I use to chat with, or help me make decisions, sanity check myself - it has a prompt filled with various context it can search from embeddings. Like the people I know, the projects I'm working on, the goals I have in life, etc. GPT goes over all the data and does summaries, organises, adds better search keywords for potential embedding callbacks.