… He now goes to Claude Code because of the value of the subscription. Cursor offered a heavily subsidized subscription plan for its AI coding tool until June 2025, when the startup announced it would start charging developers through usage-based pricing. …
… Others report similarly skewed ratios when price paid is compared to list price value or more – 36x by one measure . This would presumably be balanced somewhat by developers who pay for underutilized subscriptions. …
… The maker of the Claude family of models saw business software subscriptions grow 4.9 percent month over month in February , according to AI fintech biz Ramp, a period during which OpenAI's subscription share fell 1.5 percent. …
… The script ran, but it incorrectly flagged my drive as critical because it interpreted a wear-leveling value of zero as meaning the drive was near end of life. This value just isn't populated, which leads to the value being returned as zero. …
… Anthropic also sells pay-as-you-go API access, metered at varying token rates, which the company refers to as "consumption billing." Buying Claude through the API has been significantly more expensive than buying it through subscription plans, an ongoing source of friction with customers who resent… …
… Automated pentesting tools deliver real value, but they were built to answer one question: can an attacker move through the network? …
… Perhaps I'll make a return to Readwise one day, but for now, it's just not worth the subscription. Three subscriptions down Yes, I am paying for Claude Pro now, so it's not like I'm getting all of its capabilities for free either, but it's still less than half of all of these combined. …
… Why does a flat-rate subscription break down for AI in a way it didn’t for earlier Internet services? The Internet runs on flat-rate subscriptions: you pay $20 a month and get effectively unlimited use. …
… Sign in to your XDA account I gave up my Perplexity subscription after a month yet my Claude subscription is going on its third month now. That probably says something about where I actually get value. …
… Again, this is an example of all the complexity coming before the value. With cloud AI, you get value immediately, and the complexity only comes later if you choose to dive deeper. …