I Wish I'd Known About Cheap Open-Source AI APIs Sooner
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Look, i Wish I'd Known About Cheap Open-Source AI APIs Sooner Three months ago I was lying awake at 2 AM wondering how I was going to afford running an AI feature for my bootcamp final project. My mentor kept telling me to "just self-host it, it's free," and I nearly threw my laptop out the window trying to figure out what an A100 even was. Then somebody in our alumni Slack casually mentioned that you can hit open-source models through an API for basically pennies, and honestly? It blew my…
1Key Takeaways
- Look, i Wish I'd Known About Cheap Open-Source AI APIs Sooner Three months ago I was lying awake at 2 AM wondering how I was going to afford running an AI feature for my bootcamp final project.
- My mentor kept telling me to "just self-host it, it's free," and I nearly threw my laptop out the window trying to figure out what an A100 even was.
- Then somebody in our alumni Slack casually mentioned that you can hit open-source models through an API for basically pennies, and honestly?
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that look, i Wish I'd Known About Cheap Open-Source AI APIs Sooner Three months ago I was lying awake at 2 AM wondering how I was going to afford running an AI feature for my bootcamp final project.
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