Also seems like a great idea to create a business models where the companies aren't incentivised to provide the best product possible. Instead they'll want to create a product just useful enough to not drive away users, but just useless enough to temp people to go up a tier, "I'm so close, just one more prompt and it will be right this time!"

Edit: To be clear, I'm not talking about Zed. I'm talking about the companies make the models.

As well as gatekeep functionality behind the prompt box. Want to find and replace? Regex? Insert a new column? Add a line break? Have the AI do it and pay us for those tokens whether it works the first time or not!

I unfortunately have seen many AI-based tools being demoed with this approach. The goal is clearly to monetize every user action while piggybacking off of models provided by a third-party. The gross thing is that leadership from the director level up LOVES these demos, even when the models very clearly fuck up in the demo.

AI: "I have cleaned the formatting for all 4,650 records in your sample XML files. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help!"

Me: "There are over 25,000 records in that data..."

AI: "You're absolutely right!"

While Apple is incentivized to ship a smaller battery to cut costs, it is also incentivized to make their software efficient as possible to make the best use of the battery they do ship