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I think you might be fooling yourself. Personal-plan subscription subsidies do not equate to "it's not viable, and all of it is about to be shut off." If that w
by x3haloed 2mo ago
I think you might be fooling yourself. Personal-plan subscription subsidies do not equate to "it's not viable, and all of it is about to be shut off." If that were true, then Kilo Code, Claude Code, Cline, Pi, and Command Code would not be occupying 5 of the top 10 apps using OpenRouter. People have purchased 20 trillion tokens this month already for coding on OpenRouter alone at full-price market rates.
Would you commission a study about whether cars are really a faster form of locomotion before deciding to purchase one?
There is empirical data right in front of your face. You're just choosing to exclude it because of where you already stand.
That's exactly what Feynman was warning about.
- kelseyfrog 2mo agoIt's like looking at the popularity of sports betting and concluding that it's a viable way to make money.
- amarant 2mo agoAnd it is? Look at kindred group for example, they made >700 million GBP last year. seems viable enough to me!
- kelseyfrog 2mo agoTo clarify, I mean for the bettors.
- amarant 2mo agoOh... Then...I don't think I understood what your point was.. How is running a inference business similar to sports betting, but specifically placing bets, not running a successful sports betting business?
- kelseyfrog 2mo agoI'm drawing a parallel between the people who are fooling themselves with AI (ex: claude code users) and sports bettors.