We know by repeated demonstration that LLM vendors prefer for their customers to be addicted. Helpless without the product. A little thing called inelastic demand, which we normally hear about in the context of the broken and extortionate USAmerican health care system. If you can't live without it, you'll pay for it at any price point. For LLMs in particular, which are notoriously expensive in both initial capital outlay and ongoing operational cost (with massive debt to pay back), there really isn't a business model other than taking off your customers' limbs and renting them back at unfathomable subscription prices.
Within that context, when a man like Elon says you don't need to know how what the source code means anymore, do you take him at his word? Do you turn off your backups and ride lean?
7/n
