May 24, 2025

How much does an LLM charge per hour for its services? If we multiple the Cost Per Output Token with Tokens Per Second, we can get the cost for what an LLM produces in Dollars Per Hour. (We’re ignoring the input cost, but it’s not the main driver of time.) Over time, different models have been released at different billing rates. New powerful models like O3 cost ~$7/hr – Poland’s minimum wage rate. Gemini 2.5 Pro costs ~$12/hr – France’s minimum wage rate. The latest Claude 4 Sonnet costs ~$2/hr – India’s minimum wage rate. ...

How much does an LLM charge per hour for its services? If we multiple the Cost Per Output Token with Tokens Per Second, we can get the cost for what an LLM produces in Dollars Per Hour. (We're ignoring the input cost, but it's not the main driver of time.) Over time, different models have been released at different billing rates. Most new powerful models like O3 or Gemini 2.5 Pro cost ~$7 - $11 per hr. ...

Earlier, I used Mermaid for technical architectures. But PlantUML seems a better option for cloud architecture diagrams. STEP 1: Copy the code Here’s a one-liner using files-to-prompt to copy all files in the current directory: fd | xargs uvx files-to-prompt --cxml | xclip -selection clipboard Or, you can specify individual files: uvx files-to-prompt --cxml README.md ... | xclip -selection clipboard STEP 2: Extract the cloud icons ...

I extracted the titles of the ~1,600 conversations I had with ChatGPT in 2025 so far and classified it against the list of How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025. Here are the top 8 things I use it for, along with representative chat titles. (The % match in brackets tells you how similar the chat title is to the use case.) Improving code (clearly, I code a lot) Troubleshooting (usually code) Corporate LLM/Copilot (this is mostly LLM research I do) Generating code (more code) Generating ideas (yeah, I’ve stopped thinking) Simple explainers (slightly surprising how often I ask for simple explanations) Generating relevant images. (Surprising, but I think I generated a lot of images for blog/LinkedIn posts) Specific search (actually, this is mis-classified. This is where I’m searching for search engines!) My classification has errors. For example, “Reduce Code Size” was classified against “Generating code” but should have been “Improving code”. But it’s not too far off. ...