been using a bunch of AI coding tools lately and noticed something that got me curious about where this is all heading. the free tiers right now are genuinely all over the place. like Gemini Code Assist gives you 180,000 completions a month for free. GitHub Copilot gives you 2,000. both call themselves free AI coding assistants. that is a 90x difference for the same category of tool. my instinct is that the generous ones like Google and Amazon are not being generous out of kindness - they are spending money to grab developer mindshare before the market settles. which means at some point the free tiers probably get worse once they have enough lock in. but maybe i am wrong. maybe competition keeps them honest long term. has anyone else been thinking about this? genuinely curious whether people think we are in a temporary subsidy phase or whether free access to AI tools is actually sustainable. submitted by /u/DAK12_YT
Originally posted by u/DAK12_YT on r/ArtificialInteligence