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Re:Anthropic silently downgraded cache TTL from 1h → 5M on M... by throw_m239339 on Sunday April 12, 2026 @06:00PM (#47745016)
Every single one of these AI services are running at loss, they are subsidized. Anybody who is surprised that these services are going to get degraded and their cost go up substantially learned nothing from the last 20 years of SAAS. It never gets cheaper.
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Re:Anthropic silently downgraded cache TTL from 1h → 5M on M... by vbezhenar on Sunday April 12, 2026 @10:12PM (#47746747)
Use cloud AI hoster with open model. Can't get more transparent and reliable than that. They won't subsidize anything, because the whole point of their business is to rent hardware. Open models won't go anywhere, they're there to stay.

The quality will be a bit behind frontier proprietary models. You gotta pay for what you use, no way to cover your expenses from peers underusing their subscription. But otherwise it should be a reasonable middle ground, with very little risk of rug being pulled out from you.

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