Frontier labs must shrinkflate the $200 subscription to upsell you to API pricing
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-09
Stewart Alsop III argues frontier model providers have no choice but to shrinkflate the $200 subscription and gradually degrade older models, pushing users toward API-billed frontier models. In his view it's the inherent nature of the business—subscribers should expect "pleb models."
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