Folks, if you are mad about LLM providers' subscription policies, there's a simple answer: Use a third-party harness that lets you switch providers at will, and pay usage-based API price. No subscriptions. It might be more expensive for now, *if* you choose a frontier model for every task. But the easy switching means you can choose cheaper models (like Kimi or GLM, which are getting pretty good!) for a lot of things. And in the long run, API pricing will be driven down by competition. This is what the LLM providers really don't want, but the rest of us should all want. If we don't want all the value created by LLMs to be captured by the LLM providers -- if we want the value spread across the economy -- then we need to make sure they are in perfect competition. Bonus: No stressing about running out of quota (nor failing to use up quota before it resets). You get exactly the tokens you need.

it's wild how VS Code became the industry standard while JetBrains spent years building actually superior IDEs that nobody wants to pay for anymore

be honest, which IDE is the best right now?

Me: "Why do you think it's better than 99% of programmers?" Them: "Speed. And it was trained on the entire internet." Let's take those one at a time.