[saghm]

I'm probably somewhat adjacent to you. I would be happy to pay, but I just don't want to pay any of the companies that are actually offering things right now. I had the $20/month sub for Claude for a couple months, until one day I kept inexplicably getting errors saying I hit the limit even though their site showed my usage at less than half for the session and 8% for the week, and it seemed silly to pay for something that couldn't even properly respect its own measurements. OpenAI sketches me out too much as a company, Cursor feels lackluster when I use it for work from the account they pay for (and now is getting acquired by maybe the only AI company even sketchier than OpenAI), and I wasn't particularly impressed with Gemini or Mistral Vibe either when I tried them on the free tiers either.

[rapind]

I was paying around $500 / month on average between multiple providers for over a year. I cancelled one a while ago because of pretty bad service availability (Bet you guess who that is!), which by all reports hasn't improved much.

For me, paying from $200 - $500 / month is reasonable if I can sustain a disruption free flow that doesn't require constant yak shaving. What I've found experimenting with DeepSeek on some open source library stuff is that it's actually going to cost me much less if I don't need frontier vibing (which I don't).

[gaolei8888]

who?