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Similar boat, lots of people on the loss-leading phase, 'the first hit is free/cheap' is in play and I know development organizations that are explicitly designing hard dependencies on hosted AI as the 'foundation' of their processes. They are going for mainframe-style lockin where customers are too scared to change when it gets too expensive.
I know one organization that at least is being more careful, their LLM usage is only based on whatever they can run indefinitely on-premise without sweating future traps around pricing changes.
Yeah. I would prefer to work at an organization that uses no AI at all, but at the very least companies should be moving to on-prem local models so that they don't suddenly get rug-pulled the moment the investment cash runs out and AI firms are forced to raise prices or die.
I've been yelling this at my own org for months, but no one cares.
Move fast and break things, even if the thing you're breaking is your own fucking business...