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📣 tarasyarema

How much are you spending on AI?


Hello there!

I'm working in a company where we use an AI provider (Anthrophic) and I'm curious how much are some of you folks spending on it, be it OpenAI, Anthrophic, etc., (when the company objective per-se is not AI) on features to support the core functions of the product.

Just for reference, yesterday I spent almost $10 while developing in my local machine, and it felt like "a lot".

PS: I understand that this is a question that the business needs to address too, i.e. understanding the margins of the product taking into account all costs. Which might imply that sometimes $1 per day is too much, or $1k per day is cheap.

Consider this Ask HN as curiosity driven :D


  👤 JohnFen Accepted Answer ✓
I spend nothing on it, because it doesn't provide enough actual value to me. Which, I suppose, seems ironic because I work on industrial deep learning systems in my day job. My employer also spends nothing on genAI. Their policy is that devs can use it if they want to, but they have to pay for it themselves if they do.