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Codesandbox jumped the shark about 3 years ago when they pivoted from simple client side sandboxes to full featured devboxes running on their servers, and incidentally started charging people credits for sharing.

This had the effect of breaking thousands, if not millions, of demos around the web, which were the main source of their word of mouth customers.

I understand why they did it - I'm sure their short term profits went up massively.

But they had caught magic before then, with a perfect blend of features and simplicity, and they sacrificed it to the gods of profit.

AI enshitification is just the natural next step in this process.