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> If an LLM can outperform an offshore team at a fraction of the cost,..

And "a few moments later" happens the same as with those "cost effective" clouds.

[1] https://www.heise.de/en/news/IDC-Many-companies-want-partly-...

[2] https://www.idc.com/resource-center/blog/storm-clouds-ahead-... (original)

in the end, it all comes down to roi; if spending x dollars a month brings in an additional 5x revenue then its gonna be worth?

then again, i have some suspicion that alot of consumer-focused end products using llms in the backend (hello chatbots) expecting big returns for all those tokens spent may have some bad news coming... if the bubble starts popping i'm guessing it starts there...

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