Revolut says that in less than a year it’s managed to slash its [code generation] costs by roughly 90 percent by making self-hosted models its default instead of relying primarily on commercial services like Claude.

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    18 hours ago

    That it’s in the hand of a few people is one major issue, but the externalized costs* are even worse one in my book and this is another post where it’s conveniently ignored mostly.

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