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Reading up on cost-analysis

3 deep · digging since may 18

Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI
Microsoft is canceling Claude Code licenses for thousands of employees due to unsustainable token costs, signaling that enterprise AI coding's unit economics don't work at current prices.
Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
Running local LLMs on Apple Silicon costs about 3x more per million tokens than using OpenRouter, and also runs slower.

Takes

We've gone really quickly from "local models are dogshit" to "local models are good actually" (like, a 12 month window from A to B). I don't think they're actually good ENOUGH yet. We need an Opus 4.5 quality local model. When that happens, I think the world will spill over. Opus 4.5 is/was amazing, and is more than good enough for almost all tasks still as long as you pair with a frontier-level planner/judge. It'll still require a hugely expensive machine to run it, I'm sure, like a $5K or more laptop or mac studio. But, that's going to be pennies compared to the API costs plus all the benefits of guaranteed privacy and so on.
@mitchellh