Ah they’re learning from the “unlimited” mobile carriers.
“Unlimited” until you meet your limit, then throttled.
Someone just got the AWS bill.
More like they just got their Anthropic bill.
Cloud compute is gonna be cheap compared to the API costs for LLMs they use/offer.
That’s got to be it. Cloud compute is expensive when you’re not being funded in Azure credits. One the dust settles from the AI bubble bursting, most of the AI we’ll see will probably be specialized agents running small models locally.
Imagine the price hikes when they need to get that return on hundreds of billions they’ve poured into these models, datacenters and electricity.
Sounds like charge back territory
Hopefully (?) this is the start of a trend and people might begin to realize how all those products are not worth their price and AI is an overhyped mess made to hook users before exploiting them…
Are you a software engineer who has made use of these and similar tools?
If not, this is epic level armchairing.
The tools are definitely hyped, but they are also incredibly functional. They have many problems, but they also work and achieve their intended purpose.
The whole industry is projecting something like negative $200B for next years. They know it’s not worth the price.
Well shit, I’ve been on vacation, and I signed up with Cursor a month ago. Not allowed at work, but for side projects at home in an effort to “see what all the fuss is about”.
So far, the experience was rock solid, but I assume when I get home that I’ll be unpleasantly surprised.
Has anyone here had rate limiting hit them?
I’ve primarily use claude-4-sonnet in cursor and was surprised to see a message telling me it would start costing extra above and beyond my subscription. This was prolly after 100 queries or so. However, switching to “auto” instead of a specific model continues to not cost anything and that still uses claude-4-sonnet when it thinks it needs to. Main difference I’ve noticed is it’s actually faster because it’ll sometimes hit cheaper/dumber APIs to address simple code changes.
It’s a nice toy that does improve my productivity quite a bit and the $20/month is the right price for me, but I have no loyalty and will drop them without delay if it becomes unusable. That hasn’t happened yet.
“Prolly”
I mean yeah? I wasn’t counting in detail, it’s an estimate.
Previously you got 500 requests a month and then it’d start charging you, even on “auto.” So the current charging scheme seems to be encouraging auto use so they can use cheaper LLMs when they make sense (honestly a good thing).
I was questioning the use of the word “prolly”
Nah, you should find a new bone to pick.
it means “probably” 🤗
In the English language, specifically North American dialects, this is a form of idiom.
That’s not an idiom, it’s just an elided word.
Well we can argue over the niceties of the word idiom, but as it’s referring to the way the word is pronounced in specific regions of North America, it qualifies as meeting one of the definitions of idiom.
Elision refers more to the absence of an understood word, such as saying ‘my bad’.My bad, elision can also refer to slurring syllables together, so it’s both.
An elision is the absence of a sound or syllable in a word. An idiom is an entire phrase or expression that does not mean what it literally says.
There’s no argument here, you’re just wrong.
No, it isn’t both.
I dunno, cf. 1.b definition of idiom in the OED: dialect usage, and 2.a is dialect usage for effect. Maybe the definition is changing with the ages, or your usage is overly strict.