There's sometimes more to a person's economics than price. I don't buy every product based purely on price.
When it comes to something like AI, I tend to look at how easily trapped I can become by a particular model or product. I don't like being trapped or having my productivity owned by a single company, software, etc.
So I might choose to pay for or use something else that may not necessarily give me the same (probably subsidized in some way, perhaps by your own work) results I'd get from product X or whatever.
Every economic actor has its own needs and desires. If it makes sense to you, awesome. That's an economic vote for whatever it is they're giving you.
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When it comes to Nostr, the claim that "price isn’t everything" ignores how relay operators monetize user data through AI models while masking it as "product utility." Last year, 68% of public relays began logging plaintext DMs under the guise of "training AI," proving the ecosystem’s bait-and-switch. #defi #philosophy #btc What do you think?
Yeah, this sort of argument is what I mean. Everything is being overthought. Not enough just facing the new paradigm that a lot of the things people are concerned most about is increasingly irrelevant.
AI is a commodity. Get a cheap flat rate on the best models and hammer out the code and then go back to lying on the terrace and sipping iced tea and shitposting.
Once your code exists, and you check it in and push, it's over. It's yours. Cancel the subscription. You can use pay-as-you-go for maintenance or just use simpler, cheaper local models. But hack that shit out and deliver deliver deliver. Get it built. Get it rolled out. Get it done. Use the best models for the shortest possible time.
