dex@dexhorthy
like I’ve said a few times, well within TOS to do this, they built the model, if they wanna give you inference at pennies on the dollar on the condition that you use their harness, great, they have the right to do this.
On this topic in particular, I don’t understand the “evil” or “rugpull”, jeers. There was never any promise to give people cheap inference. Before the claude code max plan we were all paying per token to use this stuff. And we’re more or less happy to do it (sure the VC funding helps). Every enterprise I know pays per token because when you use subsidized inference, YOU are the product. “Have some cheap code, in exchange for helping to train the next gen of models”
You can hate on that particular behavior if you want but nobody is making you take part in that particular market dynamic. Do I wanna see a world where model companies take some of their massive financial gains and use that to pull everybody up? Of course. I hope it happens some day.
An allegory perhaps:
If public e-bike company gave you a subscription on rides and you proceeded to around ripping out batteries and sticking them in your own bike and ride around town, you’d get banned for that too. Especially if your bike was poorly wired and overloaded the batteries/cause them to flame up etc.
Banning that behavior would deliver far better results for the people who were using the system as designed