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I get a good amount of non-agentic use out of them, and pay literally less than $1/month for GLM-4.7 on deepinfra.
I can imagine my costs might rise to $20-ish/month if I used that model for agentic tasks... still a very far cry from the $1000-$1500 some spend.
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I hate thumbs up/down. 2 values is too little. I understand that 5 was maybe too much, but thumbs up/down systems need an explicit third "eh, it's okay" value for things I don't hate, don't want to save to my library, but I would like the system to know I have an opinion on. I know that consuming something and not thumbing it up/down sort-of does that, but it's a vague enough signal (that could also mean "not close e…
Here's the discussion from back in the day when this changed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=837698 In practice, people generally didn't even vote with two options, they voted with one! IIRC youtube did even get rid of downvotes for a while, as they were mostly used for brigading.
No, they got rid of them most likely because advertisers complained that when they dropped some flop they got negative press from media going "lmao 90% dislike rate on new trailer of ".
Stuff disliked to oblivion was either just straight out bad, wrong (in case of just bad tutorials/info) and brigading was very tiny percentage of it.
I'd second this wholeheartedly Since building a custom agent setup to replace copilot, adopting/adjusting Claude Code prompts, and giving it basic tools, gemini-3-flash is my go-to model unless I know it's a big and involved task. The model is really good at 1/10 the cost of pro, super fast by comparison, and some basic a/b testing shows little to no difference in output on the majority of tasks I used Cut all my sub…
I'm consistently amazed at how much some individuals spend on LLMs. I get a good amount of non-agentic use out of them, and pay literally less than $1/month for GLM-4.7 on deepinfra. I can imagine my costs might rise to $20-ish/month if I used that model for agentic tasks... still a very far cry from the $1000-$1500 some spend.
I paid a total of 13 US Dollars for all my llm usage in about 3 years. Should I analyze my providers and see if there's room for improvement?
How? All LLM-as-a-Servive's are prohibitively expensive for me. $13 over 3 years sounds too-good-to-be-true.
What I did splurge on was brief openai access for some subtitle translator program and when I used the deepseek api. Actually I think that $13 includes some as yet unused credits. :D
I'd be happy to provide details if CLIs are an option and you don't m ind some sweatshop agent. :)
(I am just now noticing I meant to type 2 years not 3 above. Sorry about that.)
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Here's the discussion from back in the day when this changed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=837698 In practice, people generally didn't even vote with two options, they voted with one! IIRC youtube did even get rid of downvotes for a while, as they were mostly used for brigading.
> IIRC youtube did even get rid of downvotes for a while, as they were mostly used for brigading. No, they got rid of them most likely because advertisers complained that when they dropped some flop they got negative press from media going "lmao 90% dislike rate on new trailer of ". Stuff disliked to oblivion was either just straight out bad, wrong (in case of just bad tutorials/info) and brigading was very tiny perc…
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Here's the discussion from back in the day when this changed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=837698 In practice, people generally didn't even vote with two options, they voted with one! IIRC youtube did even get rid of downvotes for a while, as they were mostly used for brigading.
> IIRC youtube did even get rid of downvotes for a while, as they were mostly used for brigading. No, they got rid of them most likely because advertisers complained that when they dropped some flop they got negative press from media going "lmao 90% dislike rate on new trailer of ". Stuff disliked to oblivion was either just straight out bad, wrong (in case of just bad tutorials/info) and brigading was very tiny perc…
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I hate thumbs up/down. 2 values is too little. I understand that 5 was maybe too much, but thumbs up/down systems need an explicit third "eh, it's okay" value for things I don't hate, don't want to save to my library, but I would like the system to know I have an opinion on. I know that consuming something and not thumbing it up/down sort-of does that, but it's a vague enough signal (that could also mean "not close e…
Here's the discussion from back in the day when this changed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=837698 In practice, people generally didn't even vote with two options, they voted with one! IIRC youtube did even get rid of downvotes for a while, as they were mostly used for brigading.
Visit a youtube video today, you can still upvote and downvote with the exact same thumbs up or down, the site however only displays to you the count of upvotes. The channel owners/admins can still see the downvote count and the downvotes presumably still inform YouTube's algorithms.
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You use stuff from xAi and Elmo? I'm unwilling to look past Musk's politics, immorality, and manipulation on a global scale
Grok is the best general purpose LLM in my experience. Only Gemini is comparable. It would be silly to ignore it, and xAI is less evil than Google these days.