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speaking of paying for LLMs, am i doing something wrong? i paid cursor $192 for a year of their entry level plan and i never run out of anything. I code professionally, albeit i'm at the stage where it's 80% product dev in finding the right thing to build.

Is there another world where $200/m is needed to run hundreds of agents or something?

am i behind and i dont even know it?

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When did you pay for it? There was a time when its limits were very generous. If you bought an annual plan at that time then you will continue with that until renewal. Or, alternatively, you’re using the Auto model which is still apparently unlimited. That’s going away.

It’s very easy to run into limits if you choose more expensive models and aren’t grandfathered.

yep just investigated and seems I got in at a good time. i paid exactly on Jan 1st 2025.

Yes, the auto model is good enough for me especially with well documented frameworks (rails, frontend madness).

Thanks for the response, looks like i'm in for a reckoning come New year's day

And thats the AI business-model in a nutshell. Generate slop quickly that you cant understand, but works enough for you to get hope, works enough to make you forget about all your training as a dev, and profit$$ of your anxiety as it rises!

At no point in the future will these same companies offer the same rates for credits. WAtch your generated code turn into a walking, talking ad for the companies who pay for product placement.

I pay $10/month for GitHub Copilot and I usually get to 100% burn on the final day of the month. I use it extensively for the entire month about 12 hours a day. It doesn't include any of the "Pro" models that are only on the $200/mo plans, but it does a pretty fantastic job.

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