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.
Lol. Definitely not. I went through pricing and large scale deployment of an AI system last week.
Together AI is at the bottom of the pile.
These are much better options in terms of both price / performance / models etc: https://cerebras.ai/ https://deepinfra.com/ https://hyperbolic.xyz/
Goes to show how frothy the market still is in AI. Large sums for free to buy up companies.