Developer Goes Into Debt Spending $1,000 a Day to Keep AI Driving Sim's Steam Demo Alive
TamerSoup625 · reddit · 2026-10-17
Per Kotaku, the AI-driven driving simulator 'Teach My Little Sister How To Drive' is burning so many tokens that its developers are spending about $1,000 a day to keep the Steam demo running, pushing them into debt. The game targets a launch next year, but the demo's inference costs are putting the team in the red early.
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