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I could be really cruel right now, I could point out to people how this is chickens coming home to roost, how it's always been grossly subsidized and underpriced, how the game was always getting users, companies, the country, the whole damn world hooked on these slop machines and then once they're reliant on them to jack up the price hugely. I could be really mean about this, I could lord it over people, I could point out how they've been dupes this whole time and in the process traitors to all of humanity.

I could. i think I will.

I literally just signed up for the $10/month plan... Guess ill just run my own git server.

"AI Credit"

fuck !!!

How else are they going to begin to recap their billions and billions of debt? Someone has to pay for all those data centres, all that hardware, all that power, etc etc etc. It will be the companies that have come to rely on AI.

Sure, for now, AI is a lot cheaper than an intern, but it doesn't become an expert like a human does. And Amazon used to be cheaper than other retailers right up until they had achieved vast market share.

This cannot be the last 10x price multiplier they pull. Not even close. Firstly they're way, way, way off from recouping their costs, and secondly, they're still way, way off market value for an incompetent human intern who isn't learning much.

Uber didn't enter the market to open up taxis to new drivers and bring down prices, that was marketing. They entered the market to take a cut out of ever taxi fare in the world, and drive up prices at peak times to many times the agreed fares, especially in regulated areas.

Similarly, AI didn't enter the coding market to drive down prices and enable greater access for folk to generate code. They entered the coding market to receive the wages of programmers and drive up prices in in-demand fields. They are not unaware of how much companies pay devs. Why else would they have spent all those billions in advance? Where is the payback coming from?

So, if you subscribe to the $10/ month plan you get $10 worth of tokens to use within a month, and if you subscribe to the $49/month plan you get $49 worth of tokens to use within a month.

At this point why subscribe? Just pay directly the tokens so if you use less you pay less.

To me it doesn't make sense to subscribe at $49 and maybe use $30 of tokens.

People were subscribing at the $49 plan because they were using $1000 in tokens worth

I mean, if AI gets too expensive, companies can always hire juniors to replace them 🤣

Just as open weight models are getting good. Qwen 3.6 27B just dropped with claimed performance approaching Opus 4.6, but it can run on a Mac with a M-series SoC. I tested it out today on a M4 Pro with Ollama and Cline and was impressed with its reasoning, but it was slow. Going to try with llama.cpp tomorrow and mess around tweaking it for speed.

https://ai.rs/ai-developer/qwen-3-6-27b-local-coding-model

AI coding agents are useful, but it’s time for the cloud-based models to chill out so we can get cheap RAM again to run our shit locally.

Ed Zitron got it right!!

We're not solidly into the enshitification stage of the AI bubble. But unlike most things, it's never created value and only drains revenue.

Users on annual Pro or Pro+ plans will remain on their existing plan with premium request-based pricing until their plan expires, however, model multipliers will increase on June 1 (see table).

holy shit, 9x the previous cost. which was already not great. I was on the fence about cancelling it, but thanks for making up my mind, MS

Gonna be hilarious when the people who haven't been paying attention realize that they just replaced workers with shit that doesn't work AND actually costs more.

Tale as old as time. Corpos try to get you dependent and then give your business an atomic wedgie.

Man, they couldn't have communicated this more confusingly, if they tried.

Related: Microsoft and OpenAI announced end of exclusivity agreement today

This is the right way to go. This will incentivize many companies to rethink their strategy, and slow down or scale down AI adoption. After that and the revenue drops for many AI companies, they will back off purchasing all possible RAM and storage in existence which will drive down pricing. And when the prices get to normal again, we will simply buy more RAM for our local machines and run free models.

This news kinda makes me happy. Shit's starting to fall apart. Finally.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot/ right now is entertaining

Getting de-skilled is starting to look like a very expensive gamble and this is just the first price hike, expect more to come. And expect them to criminalize open source models as well with some national security concerns or something.