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The AI price split: why the middle market is disappearing
technology1 month ago

The AI price split: why the middle market is disappearing

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 pricing (about $5 input, $30 output per million tokens) and DeepSeek’s open-weight V4-Pro/Fl­ash offerings have created a two-cluster AI market, widening the cost gap between a closed, vendor-managed product and cheaper, open infrastructure. The once-smooth price-performance curve now shows a thinning middle, forcing developers to route workloads across the high-end integrated stack and the lower-cost open-weight stack, and reshaping how AI agents and coding assistants are built and deployed.

Ten Lessons from Burning Out with AI Coding Agents
technology4 months ago

Ten Lessons from Burning Out with AI Coding Agents

Benj Edwards chronicles two months of experimenting with Claude Code, Claude Opus, and Codex to prototype 50+ projects, concluding that AI coding agents are powerful tools that amplify human skill but cannot replace experience: models are brittle outside their training data, true novelty is hard, the last 10% requires human polish, feature creep can derail projects, AGI isn’t here yet, speed isn’t instant, and users may end up busier—so these tools should be seen as amplifiers of human ideas, used with discipline, solid architecture, and careful documentation.