Antirez advises ordinary devs to buy AI subscriptions instead of paying per-API

Redis and SQLite creator antirez recommends that ordinary developers without large budgets buy at most two AI subscriptions (e.g. OpenAI and Anthropic) instead of paying per-API usage. He argues subscriptions keep costs capped, letting regular people build small ventures with AI coding tools.

2026-09-29 ~ 2026-09-30 · 2 related posts

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