alt Hacker NewsHaving contracted in a company that tipped over from subscription token pricing to API token pricing recently, there’s still extremely good reason to keep your software a transparent.
The bill for the API usage was _hundreds_ of times higher than the subscriptions. Companies with a few hundred engineers, but without sky-high margins, simply cannot afford not to understand their codebases.
this is kind of blowing my mind, have engineers here peeked at a bill for a medium to large size orgs token usage? growing all the time and yet everyone's solution to the inevitable issues that come from letting go of the wheel is to have Fable 12 come and rescue you. have fun tying your destiny to unpredictable recurring costs, or we could just be engineers and understand the things we build.