I’ve been wondering about the AI bubble, and that the subscriptions we pay now are non profitable for the big companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenAI already started with the ADS idea, and I believe Anthropic at some point need to stop the leak. Right now we are the data, and our usage helps them make their products better and that is why we are given it “cheaper”. If I had to pay for my token usage it would be around 5000€ monthly. If they ever migrate from this subscription based model, or, increase them considerably or, reduce the session usage considerably too, I would see my self in a bad position.
The question is, does it make sense for people like me to start a long-term plan on building hardware for have the plan B or just to move out? Considering I cannot throw 50K euros in hardware now, but it would be feasible if spread into 3-4 years?
Or am I just an idiot trying to find a reason for buying expensive hardware?
besides this other ideas come up like solar panels for having less dependency on the energy sector as I live in Germany right now and its very expensive, there will also be a law this year that will allow people to sell/buy the excess of produced electricity to neighbours at a fraction of the cost.
Also considering that I might lose my job after AI replace all of us on software engineering, and I need to make my life pursuing personal projects. If I have a powerful hardware I could maybe monetize it someway somehow.
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