First of all I don’t live in a neighbourhood with something equivalent of a HOA, but we do have an organisational unit that involves the group of 6 homes where I live in.
We had a meeting regarding the repair of a shared drain pipe following an inspection we had earlier this year, the camera inspection had a cost of €120 that was equally divided among 6 households, so €20 each, nice and easy.
After getting the quote for the repairs, one of our neighbours asked chatgpt to split the bill, €1500 divided by 6.
edit: paraphrasing, he proudly said "I asked chatgpt and 1500/6 is 250”
Do you really need to ask an LLM to divide two numbers? something the cheapest calculator can do instantly, or better yet, something you can easily do I your head?
Yeah, the numbers are kind of crazy if you take the time to dig into them. I’m forced to use Claude at work, but the company has bought all of us in at the $200 a month tier. That subscription gives basically unlimited usage… assuming you stay within Claude’s ecosystem (Claude code, basically).
However, if you want to use Claude with some other tools you have to generate an API key, and that gets billed by token usage (on top of the $200 per month). I know devs who are burning through $100 PER DAY on API usage, and I suspect their usage patterns are not at all unusual for heavy users. But even if it is, you’d still only have to be spending $7 a day in compute for the math on a $200 monthly sub to make sense for Anthropic, so it’s pretty obvious that their subscription customers are losing them money at an insane rate.
I’m pretty sure even doubling the subscription costs wouldn’t be enough for them to break even on compute, which is insane given how expensive a monthly sub is already. Once the VC money runs out and a sub price rises to $1000+ per month, the whole landscape is going to change extremely quickly.