Dev Laments AI Development Is Now Pay-to-Win Amid Token Costs and Limits
vinvan · x · 2026-09-14
Developer vinvan complains that AI development has become pay-to-win: if you can afford top models and arena testing everything, life is easy; otherwise you waste time thinking about limits and scrounging cheap tokens. He compares it to a video game with insane microtransactions.
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