So intelligence has turned into a utility per Sam Altman et al., and now the same companies get to hike the price of accessing it by 20–30%, right as it’s becoming the backbone of how teams actually ship work. People are pushing out so much, so fast that last week’s output is already a blur. I’ve got colleagues who refuse to go back to writing any of this stuff by hand.

And now maintaining that pace means absorbing arbitrary price increases, shrugged off with “we were operating at a loss anyway.”

It stops being “pay to play” and starts looking more like pay just to stay in the ring, while enterprise players barely feel the hit and everyone else gets squeezed out.

Market maturing my butthole... it’s obviously a dependency being priced in real time. Tech is an utter shit show right now, compounded by the disaster of the unemployment market still reeling from the overhiring of 2020.

save up now and career pivot. pick up gardening.

> So intelligence has turned into a utility.

"Utility" is close, but "energy source" may be closer. When it becomes the thing powering the pace of work itself, raising prices is less about charging for access and more about taxing dependency.

Like every startup ever, they were selling it to you at a loss to compete for market share and are slowly increasing pricing. Duh.