noway.

i bought a $3k AMD395+ under the Sam Altman price hike and its got a local model that readily accomplishes medial tasks.

theres a ceiling to these price hikes because open weights will keep popping up as competitors tey to advertise their wares.

sure, we POV different capabilities but theres definitely not that much cash in propfietary models for their indererminance

What about when there is a $100/month tool that makes your engineer 90% as productive as they were on the $1000/mo tool?

What if that tool is something you can run on prem, and over time make the investment back?

It's not so simple.

If your company is making $1 mil per employee per year, then 10% is 100k. Even at 500k employee or lesseer numbers it's almost always better to buy the $1000/month tool (break even is a measly $108k revenue per employee per year)

It's not just about cost, it's about having the control, stability, and autonomy of on-prem. Plus you can probably repurpose that compute when employees are out of the office.

Anyways, I'm just saying it's not so simple ;)

No engineer will cost 20.000 bucks a month at this point in time. Offshoring is still happening aggressively.