One thing I'm slightly anxious about in this new LLM world is whether the prices I'm paying are sustainable. I crank the fuck out of cursor and I think we're paying like 40 bucks a month for the privilege. Is this early Uber where it was unbelievable how cheap the rides were? In 2030 am I going to have gotten dependent on ai assisted levels of productivity, be making client and customer promises based on that expectation, but suddenly find myself looking at 1k+ bills, now that all the ai companies need to actually make money?
I am speaking out of intuition, but I think that part will be the quickest to be optimized. The current capabilities will cost pennies in a few years. I base this on the past trajectory but also on hearing very authorized people say that there is still room for a lot of optimizations across the stack.
