Man, every time I hear about the cost of an actual AI application, it is always something obscene. At least this isn’t as bad as Steve “Gas Town” Yegge spending $30k/year for a dozen subscriptions (that cost Anthropic ~$1M/year in token costs) to develop his game with 6 active players.

At this point I have zero patience for my colleagues who think that the AI companies could make the economics all work out. Doesn’t help that mathematicians are the least cost-conscious people on the planet, and the AI companies are massively subsidizing their subscriptions in particular.

They’re spending about $70 per month per player.

The developers have taken out a bank loan to keep the demo running. A free demo where the whole way the game works relies on a paid service.

The financial end game here is not clear. Who will pay for this in the release version? The developers think the players will.

Can’t wait for these jokers to learn the hard way that they don’t understand The Market.

Absolutely incredible. Easily the funniest thing I read today. It’s like a perfect micro-example of the AI bubble.

Epic idiocy.

That’s at the investor subsidized rate as well.

Huh, this video got flagged as mature content. Unusual move for this channel…