I use it for development. All the things mentioned are nice, but there's no way I could afford to do development using a paid service. I pass/generate way too many tokens and my company hasn't really sponsored my work yet.
Having chatgpt write a pirate poem hardly costs a thing. Getting an llm to summarize a bunch of search results, or read an email inbox flagging certain scenarios, or parse through a codebase looking for specific features gets very, very expensive fast.
Very good to know! I haven't fiddled with the new yi models too much yet since I was running into these exact issues. I'll definitely use this solution soon, thanks.