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everything goes up and down
Why not?
Mostly due to RAM price increase
mostly due to inflation everywhere
RAM price, especially DDR5; NVMe/SSD price, especially enterprise grade. Those hardware component prices have increased multiple times since the spring of 2025.
Rising costs affect the entire industry, especially server and infrastructure providers. Nobody works for charity.
The only thing going down is my salary at this point
Great question Beanzy, honestly I don't know
Thanks
Much insightful, appreciate your comment
AI is driving massive demand for servers and data center space, pushing up price.
Even more alarming is that tech companies have begun laying off staff, leaving many people unemployed such as oracle.
Very insightful
Much insightful, appreciate your comment
I like your jokes!
Pretty much this. It's all just one big mystery. I hope @OP manages to clear this up.
If everyone stops using AI and returns to being less productive, prices would go back down, right?
And if you can do the job faster and more efficiently with AI, you can charge more per hour, right?
Or do you use AI, charge the same price per hour, invoice fewer hours, swallow the price hikes, and complain about price hikes on LET?
AI
And also about it increasing productivity, maybe
As for myself I think it’s really hard to make that call. I’m certainly way more effective per minute. But I also feel like while I could be coding for 10 hours straight, I can’t really handle 3 concurrent LLMs while researching something as they run for an entire day, mentally it’s much more taxing to be a constant peer reviewer of several sessions while also trying to be productive in the times in between input and output
I still feel that it’s a gain from before LLMs but even though I can get 3x more done in an hour, I can’t get 3x more done in a month
@sillycat confirm it
Arguably, more use of AI will bring lower prices sooner, but the point here is an abuse of the allocated compute
it s confirm, im no cat tho
I think it's a handful of LET denizens buying up every vps so they can trumpet about their stable of idlers that are the real cause of the increase in gas prices.
You just spend all your day shit posting anyways
Isn't researching, planning, and handling a swarm of LLMs something that was supposed to be done by AI in Ruflo's Red Light District?
Because of your AI, everything has gone up in price, well, in general, I think AI has greatly influenced the market.
Corporate greed and providers spending money on weeb dolls. Or I dunno, maybe upstream costs.
Maybe I'll succeed to have less idlers.
Before I was still buying new deals when cancelling old ones.
FOMO is dead.