Why I Stopped Giving My Money to AI Walled Gardens
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Why I Stopped Giving My Money to AI Walled Gardens A few months ago I was sitting in a coffee shop, staring at my terminal, trying to figure out why I'd spent $1,200 on API calls last month for what amounted to a side project. That's when I realized the AI industry has the same disease the software industry had in the 2000s: vendor lock-in dressed up as "innovation." Let me tell you what I learned after thirty days of deliberately testing every route to large language models I could find.…
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- Why I Stopped Giving My Money to AI Walled Gardens A few months ago I was sitting in a coffee shop, staring at my terminal, trying to figure out why I'd spent $1,200 on API calls last month for what amounted to a side project.
- That's when I realized the AI industry has the same disease the software industry had in the 2000s: vendor lock-in dressed up as "innovation." Let me tell you what I learned after thirty days of deliberately testing every route to large language models I could find.….
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that why I Stopped Giving My Money to AI Walled Gardens A few months ago I was sitting in a coffee shop, staring at my terminal, trying to figure out why I'd spent $1,200 on API calls last month for what amounted to a side project.
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