When something is abundant, people tend to waste it.

I’m perfectly happy with my base subscriptions. I have Claude Code and Codex monthly subs, plus a yearly Google AI Pro account because it was a logical upgrade from the cloud storage plan I already had. I think it worked out to something like an extra $10/month for the AI features.

I constantly rotate between them during the week, managing tokens carefully, cleaning sessions and contexts as soon as possible, and being intentional about usage.

I honestly don’t understand the appeal of these ultra-expensive max subscriptions.

It reminds me of that flying orb toy I bought for the kids a few years ago. The battery only lasted about 10 minutes, and the kids would go ape shit crazy while it worked. Then it needed a 30-minute recharge, which created a natural cooldown period.

I actually considered that a good feature. I would never want the thing running nonstop.

There’s so much content getting buried now.

If you’re looking for anything remotely niche or legally gray, like sports streams or ebooks, you’re often better off using Yandex or you’ll never find it.

The old Google search engine that used to properly index and surface the open web has been gone for a long time.

From what I hear, most enterprise AI deployments are seat-based subscriptions with annual commitments.

Have you considered the possibility that someone you regard as extremely intelligent is speaking from real-life experience and direct proximity when they say another person is smart?

Or perhaps your bias toward Musk make that impossible to even consider.

That’s not really the point. Engineering has always operated on trust networks, not just artifacts.

Your review naturally adapts based on the level of trust you have in the author. If someone has consistently produced high-quality work, whether they used AI or not becomes mostly irrelevant.

Did I miss some news where Coinbase literally stole people’s money, or at least did something that could reasonably be called evil?

Have some empathy for people losing their jobs because of upper management’s incompetence.

They'll switch to async communications for everything, and ideally have a bot that answers Mm-humm like a psychologist on his chair.

More seriously, the solution is to move to a flatter org, but that's a drastic change with unknown consequences for most companies.

It feels like a classic “drug dealer” model to me. Get everyone hooked with cheap access, then raise prices later. Unless there’s a major breakthrough in the underlying technology, I don’t see how a significant price increase isn’t inevitable once adoption is locked in.

This is the moat for AI frontier companies.

Their bet is that most people will not fill up 100% of their weekly usage for 4 consecutive weeks of their monthly plan, because they are humans and the limits impede long running tasks during working hours.

Sonnet 4.6 in CC doesn’t behave the same way as Sonnet 4.6 in Antigravity.