If the anti-AI people were right about their, “A million tokens should cost the GDP of Ghana!” bullshit, then that means by their logic playing two hours of Fallout should cost $100,000.

This is obviously not the case, so AI simply cannot be as expensive as they claim. Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

Wow, the comments on this article about GitHub price increases are absolute horseshit.

Brothers and sisters, all of you are fucking idiots. I say that with love. Love for how right I am.

Price increases are not a sign of the AI bubble bursting or even how much AI “actually costs.” None of what Github is doing has anything to do with that.

This is all a political decision in the sense that this is an attempt by Anthropic et al. to wrest back control from third-party resellers and bring back customers to their own offerings. To be clear, GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is a third-party reseller. It does not develop nor run nor operate its own model and Microsoft has no in-house-developed quality frontier AI.

This is not what y’all clowns think it is, because none of you know a goddamn thing about anything and it’s kind of embarrassing.

Estimating from open-source benchmarks and accounting for all capital/personnel costs, a frontier AI actually costs about $8 per million tokens for something Opus-sized.

They could make massive profit by charging $16 per million, in other words. And that million tokens is enough to drop in a moderate codebase of 30,000–50,000 lines and ask “where’s the bug” or “explain this code.” In other words, a million tokens can do a freakin’ lot.

You understand nothing and know nothing. Just shut up. You’re hurting my head.

Too many people want to believe something that does not match reality and not only is it powerful stupid, it’s boring and tedious.