I get it, and feel the same way but the current LLMs are very resource intensive. To the point that I'm reluctant to go all in on these tools if in future we get rug-pulled once companies admit "okay, this was not sustainable at that price.."

I am really afraid of this as well. When using one of the plugins for vscode, I would easily use a few million tokens a day. Thus with Claude Code I assume it isn't much different under the hood. The prices on openrouter are roughly $5/M for the better models. Therefore paying $20/month can't be sustainable.

Once enough developers are addicted to AI assisted coding the VCs will inevitably pull the rug.

I wonder if Alibaba will put out a 100B A10B coder model which could probably run for $0.5/M while giving decent output. That would be easily affordable for most developers/companies.

Some people claim we already reached peak-LLM. It's cheap and powerful right now, in the future it might just get more expensive, or worse quality for the same price.