I'd call it a straight up "bait and switch".

If you paid attention to the power requirements and amount of hardware being put into data centers, you should have realized that it cost them an order of magnitude more than you were being charged. To rework your analogy: they hooked you, now they're gonna see if they can reel you in.

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AntiUSAbah 6 hours ago | parent [-]

They can only reel you in if its worth it. I still can code.

And while i do not spend 200$ privat, in my startup we discussed this and our current mental model is, that instead of hiring someone new, we prefer to have more money for tokens.

This is easier for us and has a bigger benefit. The cost of a new / first employee is very high, a 200$ subscription is not. Upgrading that to lets say 400 or 800$ is still alot easier and if i can run multiply and better agents with that money, lets goooo.

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boothby 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm looking at education -- teachers and students, not terribly tech savvy, are being mandated to use these tools. And then comes the rug-pull. It was worth it, but now it's outside of their budget. Poorer schools / students can't stay at the cutting edge; richer schools / students can.

	▲	AntiUSAbah 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You still get far with 20$ if you don't use it daily for lots of coding and thinking though. And Gemma 4 and other open models can easily be hosted even for schools.

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jochem9 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh, I thought it was opium.