[kromem]

Lifetime fees don't make a lot of sense for products that will likely have rather short obsolescence cycles.

[Larrikin]

Unless work is paying the cost, getting another subscription for a cloud service and not being able to run the software after some arbitrary period doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I'm willing to pay for updates, I'm tired of every company wanting to turn me into a renter

[theironhammer]

This rent seeking trend in business is like a cancer.

[fomine3]

Cloud computing is a practical idea in theory. What's bad is that big techs start rent seeking thanks to lock-in. It's okay to utilize cloud LLMs unless they start lock-in IMO, though they will.