Why so high. Especially for people who still dont know what AI can do. Why pay that price. When I saw the cost. I’,m still trying to figure AI out. How about 14 dsys free.
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4o-mini is pretty affordable, imo. Most of us started with davinci, and this is probably somewhat comparable.
I really wouldn’t go for assists if you’re in any way cost conscious. There are so many way assistants can go sideways, leaving you to foot the bill.
All that said, you can do almost everything (or at least get very far) with the free chatgpt version, in terms of learning how to prompt, and getting a feel for basic programs. Functions and tools are just pure JSON responses, and all that jazz around json mode and json schema is just unnecessary frill, in my opinion (some people here will disagree, but that’s my stance).
The only thing you don’t have access to, I guess, is the python interpreter. It’s a neat feature, but also not really crucial to get the hang of things.
Lastly, I’ll add that you can stretch a dollar quite far nowadays if you’re responsible. If you keep your context window short and use a cheap model, inference really isn’t very expensive.
But yeah, it kind of sucks that there’s no more free credits. It looks like the good old days where companies threw boatloads of cash after just about anyone is over 
The good news though, is that the hype cycle around LLM seems to be dying down at the moment. That means if you get into it now, there’s a good chance you’ll be perfectly equipped when phase two starts to hit 
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