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Ask HN: How much are you spending on AI?
Hello there!
I'm working in a company where we use an AI provider (Anthrophic) and I'm curious how much are some of you folks spending on it, be it OpenAI, Anthrophic, etc., (when the company objective per-se is not AI) on features to support the core functions of the product.
Just for reference, yesterday I spent almost $10 while developing in my local machine, and it felt like "a lot".
PS: I understand that this is a question that the business needs to address too, i.e. understanding the margins of the product taking into account all costs. Which might imply that sometimes $1 per day is too much, or $1k per day is cheap.
Consider this Ask HN as curiosity driven :D
- JohnFen 2y agoI spend nothing on it, because it doesn't provide enough actual value to me. Which, I suppose, seems ironic because I work on industrial deep learning systems in my day job. My employer also spends nothing on genAI. Their policy is that devs can use it if they want to, but they have to pay for it themselves if they do.
- tarasyarema 2y agoInteresting, I do agree that finding actual value is not "trivial" for genai. In our case we found a specific use case that actually helps our purpose, so we use it there. Also, how I always try to think about it is: do not expected accuracy to be 100%, it's not deterministic, and find a way for the user to actually use it as a helper / time reducer than an actually core solution.
- JohnFen 2y agoYes, I can imagine use cases where it would have value. I just have none of those use cases. I don't find that, on the whole, it actually saves me any time due to the need to double-check the output. I'm certainly not saying that it has no value to anybody. There are plenty of people here who claim that it's been a great boon to them, and I don't doubt them.