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Have you laid those people off? You still have people on the payroll. If each one of them uses a $500 subscription, you are now spending $42k/month, not $40k.

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Now think about that he is counting it like:

He never had to hire anyone in the first place.

He didn't have to make any contracts, deal with screening, background checks, recruitment calls.

All that money he didn't spend he can spend on maxing out token usage.

No, but the 3 of us can now accomplish a lot more than we used to. We spend around $450 a month on hosted inference plus capital / utility costs of around $100 a month in local inference.

And our 2 non-technical staff are now busy designing apps, so when they hand off something to be productised, it’s far more complete than the old days of a few Figma drawings

Are you sure you are?

Try laying some people off just to be sure.

I'm very un-motivated to do so since then I'd have more work to do, and I'd be making less money.

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