From cable bundles to single-channel subs: AI subscriptions may fragment the same way
SuB8u · x · 2026-09-10
The author draws an analogy from cable TV's unbundling into per-channel subscriptions to AI: one unified AI subscription may give way to per-feature bot subscriptions. They also mock today's polarized discourse — one side shouting AI takes all jobs, the other shouting AI will kill us all — calling it a strange era.
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