I’ve found that subscription is ~98% cheaper than API pricing.
replyI think the API pricing is a good proxy for "what was the actual physical cost of doing this," but even if you increase it from 5k to 30k or even 100k, it's a huge savings over getting a human to do it, AND it was faster.
replyI don't think the productivity gains from AI can be ignored for contexts like this. It's what they're best at.
I just hope it goes to good uses (more ports of fun games, more interoperability and opennesS) instead of bad ones (firing humans instead of retasking them), and that hope feels faint.
In no way am I suggesting that doing this without AI would be more practical. What I want to know is roughly how much is Anthropic subsidizing this stuff through the subscriptions currently and how much we can expect the real price paid to go up in the future.
replyRight, that's why the API pricing is a better metric than subscription pricing. It's probably still subsidized but not as much.
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replyYep, I agree. Further in the notes it's mentioned this probably would've taken a handful of Senior Engineers anywhere from 6 months to 2 years. The range of budget on the project is like $200 to $500k. This was done for peanuts in my spare time. I share both your optimism and pessimism, depending on the day, lol.
reply> This was done for peanuts
replyIf you don't have a real dollar cost then can you tell us how much it actually cost in peanuts?
$20 can buy many peanuts
replyexplanation: money can be exchanged for goods and services.
reply> it's a huge savings over getting a human to do it
replyThis of course assumes it's something anyone would consider worth paying a human to do (it's not).
That's not true, companies pay humanies to develop ports and remasters of software all the time. Maybe not from one dead platform to another, but the same technology can be used to take a game like this from a dead platform to a living one.
replyIt was, 15+ years ago, when porting N64 games to 3DS was a lucrative market for hired guns. We have the magic 'port' button and this tech just showed how easy it is with severely different architectures & constraints.
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