Dev publicly trashes Microsoft AI Foundry onboarding: 18 screens and a credit card before giving up
altryne · x · 2026-09-19
Developer altryne publicly called out Mustafa Suleyman over Microsoft AI Foundry's onboarding: to get a single API key, he went through roughly 18 screens, was forced to put a credit card on file (which he did), and hit confusing, scary steps before giving up. He asks whether the flow will be fixed — a vivid case of heavy-friction developer onboarding at a major AI vendor.
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