Post #3770214
2026-07-11 12:55 UTC
ok, maybe they want to build for free while the AI labs are giving away free treats, but then they built something that they can't maintain or change once the treats are taken away. so in the end, they still just wasted a bunch of time. it's very weird.
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@dain@hachyderm.io 2026-07-11 13:04
@peter@thepit.social it's unlikely that subscriptions will completely go away (why would labs give up on that recurring revenue) but the usage limit will keep decreasing. I guess people hope it'll be enough for maintenance? Or that cheaper or open weights models will get good enough? For example, I can run Deepseek 4 Flash on my laptop at a decent enough speed right now so even if subscriptions were turned off overnight, I could still delegate some simpler tasks to it. Though I guess pure vibe coders need the frontier models to fill in the gaps of what they don't know, so a smaller model would mess things up...