Coding with LLMs (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) is often presented as the ‘killer app’ for Generative AI. But looking at data, it seems the one piece of the puzzle missing is actual cost. …
Why not?
Why Microsoft develops it’s .NET ecosystem? Why Google develops Go/Dart? It costs them lots of money and they give it for free.
The answer is: they don’t earn money on it directly, but these tools are a way to tie programmers to their cloud services. If you use .NET you’ll probably end up on Azure. If Go - probably you’ll use GCP.
So I suspect the same will be with LLMs. At some point they will say: “hey, you can use this LLM however you want, but as you are already using it, then you may want to know our platform is optimized for it”
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Why not? Why Microsoft develops it’s .NET ecosystem? Why Google develops Go/Dart? It costs them lots of money and they give it for free.
The answer is: they don’t earn money on it directly, but these tools are a way to tie programmers to their cloud services. If you use .NET you’ll probably end up on Azure. If Go - probably you’ll use GCP.
So I suspect the same will be with LLMs. At some point they will say: “hey, you can use this LLM however you want, but as you are already using it, then you may want to know our platform is optimized for it”
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