alt Hacker NewsThey probably never intended to keep serving cheap models. This is a natural way to introduce the squeeze, now that they have people who built services on their API. It makes a lot of sense to have an abstraction layer where the provider doesn't matter. If you are working in Kotlin, Koog is excellent.
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lanthissa • yesterday at 8:44 PM
switching models is insanely cheap compared to token cost on anything signficant, this is a take so cynical it misses the reality
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hnarn • yesterday at 8:07 PM
> now that they have people who built services on their API
People really can’t wait to be the next Zynga
I think the big 3 are cartelizing and starting to ratchet up costs. GPT5.5 is not easily distinguishable from 5.1. I would it be shocked if we hit the ceiling and everyone is quietly positioning for the exit.