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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by csomar on Thursday May 28, 2026 @03:17PM (#48314027)
> Most people will be very glad to pay Anthropic, OpenAI, Google etc $200 a month to get things done 20x faster than they could IF they had a $8000 MacBook and could theoretically do it locally.

No most people will not pay $200 for an LLM subscription. Some software developers do. Also, at $200/month, you are much better getting the macbook machine assuming token output speed is the same or at least reasonable.

LLMs are not very productive for your average person now for them to drop $200 on. They'll need to be more capable and integrated and even so...

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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by margorczynski on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:43PM (#48315193)
One thing to remember is that the $200/month subscription is heavily subsidized. It is more to promote use, especially to corporate users that pay for the API token use.
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