AI doomers are AI believers. You're referring to AI skeptics.

Are the companies making a profit on every prompt I give it (factoring in the cost of upgrading GPUs every year or two)?

According to OpenAI, yes. They're "very profitable" on inference. It is the training and capex (driven by competition) that is driving loss.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/ offers a different point of view on OAI's profitability on inference.

But isn't that their "moat"? If the moat is the source of losses, then yes, they're operating at a huge loss.

They've got us addicted. They're going to squeeze us eventually. I know my company don't stop using agent driven development. It's increased our velocity too much.

You're right. But I easily round robin between Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini every day without noticing any friction whatsoever.

i got off that shit two years ago. you're a victim, i am not.