Post #3770216
2026-07-11 13:04 UTC
@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...
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@CynAq@beige.party 2026-07-11 13:53
@dain@hachyderm.io @peter@thepit.social or, hear me out, it’s all gambling addiction expressed in a productive-looking, family friendly facade
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@art_codesmith@toot.cafe 2026-07-11 15:10
@dain@hachyderm.io @peter@thepit.social > why would labs give up on that recurring revenue Because they wouldn't be able to sell the product for the price they need to stay afloat. How many people would spend a couple thousand dollars a month on Claude or ChatGPT? This is the real cost of their $200/mo subscriptions.
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@print@theforkiverse.com 2026-07-11 16:13
@dain@hachyderm.io @peter@thepit.social Maintenance? Ha ha ha Vibe coders are off "coding"their next shiny thing. They hardly even remember that project that was made last month.