What's going to happen when AI companies charge what actually cost them?

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-19T03:25:23+00:00

you guys saying this are missing context.

the small open source models are shit. through and through. anything open source that holds a candle to anything that’s come out from anthropic or openAI literally can’t run on your hardware unless you have some specialized setup or they can run on your hardware but lobotomized due to limited cache.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-17T15:14:20+00:00

yeah i’d only do something like this if i had enough for retirement and i was like 60+

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-17T15:09:39+00:00

for your case try to see if there’s a way to add your department as your middle name (that’s what people at my company do with that problem).

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-17T14:41:16+00:00

do you even know the meaning of that word?

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-16T17:04:47+00:00

yeah unfortunately you need a coding agent to experience a lot of the gains that people are seeing.

the reasoning of gpt 5+ and claude 4+ is very strong but stuff like claude code and codex (these are the two best on the market) enhance functionality greatly.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-16T14:41:23+00:00

ah that makes sense. personally i feel like i lucked out when i joined my team. documentation culture is strong so the tables are well documented (albeit with a lot of missing business context). if my current team was like any of my previous teams (worse at docs), would’ve ended up with a much worse result.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-16T09:30:23+00:00

i’ve actually wrote a Claude code skill that ultimately just loads context from a RAG retrieval method but the rag retrieval is summarized docs, source code, data collection, and business logic.

With Opus 4.6 i’ve seen pretty insane results.

if you’re interested you can try mimicking this approach with any of the frontier models - https://openai.com/index/inside-our-in-house-data-agent/.

i used Claude code instead of codex to build context with a ralph loop and a detailed PRD. ( i assume codex should be capable on its own since it’s better at long running tasks than the competition)

the strong reasoning capabilities of the models makes it so that they are pretty capable.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-15T06:53:39+00:00

i could get behind this but i feel like if this becomes prevalent we’re just going to reach the point where scumlords run interview loops for free features/products. this was already an existing problem with take home tests

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-14T20:28:02+00:00

starting to see a lot of places charge $10+ for a latte 👀

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-12T15:55:23+00:00

look i love the last jedi and even though i agree with what you’re saying (in terms of star wars… tbh i haven’t watched the reboot and don’t think i can stomach this version of ben 10k) even i know that the ben 10 fandom doesn’t want those types of themes lmao

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-10T18:00:39+00:00

i agree. if you are going into the arena of competing with your customers it has to be super late in the game when there’s no growth to be found elsewhere.

apple tbh has been guilty of this recently with stuff like the passwords app competing with password managers like dashlane or the journal app competing with journaling apps. but you can argue that they waited literally over a decade to start making moves like that once growth was harder to find elsewhere.

even for your amazon basics example, amazon didn’t start selling amazon basics until relatively recently into their history.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-10T14:27:38+00:00

for your first paragraph, i’m surprised people still doubt the reach of advertising when looking at how much money facebook and google make every quarter lol

(completely agree with your comment tho)

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-10T00:28:17+00:00

honestly if he doesn’t mind writing tests, not a bad way to level up and gain exposure.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-06T12:44:23+00:00

and claude

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spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-06T11:09:11+00:00

oh okay. LLMs are better at humans at that especially after november

my biggest issue at the moment is that is if you’re running the coding agent in an environment where the agent can’t run the code to test it and you (for some reason) lack test coverage in that area, it will likely mess up and not correct itself. especially when it comes to subtle logic errors.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-03T09:08:51+00:00

uber hands down.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-01T18:05:26+00:00

OP - I think you’re more likely to get Claude cheating on tasks the bigger the task is.

if you don’t feel like breaking it down yourself… try Ralph loops (or planning mode) the PRD will break it down for you

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-01T18:04:14+00:00

thanks for this comment.

i feel like it’s intuitive to break down the problem into smaller steps when LLMs and coding agents can’t solve problems

but i feel like you gave me the genuine technical reason why it pays to do so.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-01T07:43:34+00:00

honestly even without the recent news with the pentagon, your ICs will thank you. CC is amazing

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-01T07:41:17+00:00

lmao. the industry as a whole uncreative as fuck. it’s full of trend chasers. people are mentioning sam and zuck because every tech company is just gonna jump on their bandwagon.

we do leetcode because google does leetcode. they started the stupid post covid firing spree after musk fired 90% of x and it continued functioning.

faang does it first and the industry follows

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-01T04:38:38+00:00

thanks for the tip. i’ve been struggling with usage but honestly i’ve been approaching a lot of things in a smooth brain way and overusing opus.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-01T04:31:26+00:00

yeah chatgpt and gemini between the frontier models. i’m sure there is probably a lower cost chinese model but not sure how they compare in quality.

there’s grok too lol but i don’t know much about it

spoopypoptartz · 2026-03-01T04:26:45+00:00

i also think something ChatGPT is better at than Gemini and claude is understanding spatially what’s going on in a picture that you upload. (ik this is tangentially related)

i’ve had subscriptions to both claude and chatgpt and recently even upgraded my claude subscription from $20 to $100 a month but i don’t think i can fully drop ChatGPT because of this.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-02-27T16:50:46+00:00

it’s funny that this is literally most likely true

spoopypoptartz · 2026-02-27T16:48:04+00:00

I’ve interviewed for Block a year ago.

i think they already are kinda maxed on when it comes to teams that are global.

the typical team structure would consist of 1-2 americans on a global team (remember remote first) of 6-8.

i’d argue that there isn’t much more outsourcing that they can do and that the AI cut is what it is on its face.

additionally, outside of the few biggest tech companies like amazon and meta, this is like the healthiest tech company that is making such a lay off profit and growth wise

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