Eager Eagle

I’m not even sure it does work. Prime only tried trivial packages, but based on my experience with agentic coding, I’m not convinced they’re able to deliver a fully functional package of medium size while being truly clean room.

Also, there’s an anecdotal comment on youtube of someone who tried this (on a small package) and they mention the clean room was violated (the AI added implementation instructions to the documentation), had performance issues, and the best part, the generated code had an MIT license. Now I wish Prime had looked at the LICENSE files created.

it ends when whoever buys their services realizes they’re spending more with duct tape around generated code than just by using an open source library and giving credit

Ok, let’s think this through. Whoever “hires” them ends with a legally questionable codebase to say the least, that has worst architecture and performance than its open source counterpart, while also being unmaintainable and likely costing more to fix than building something the right way in the first place.

So they’re taking money from people trying to do this shit? Great.

It’s satirical

60% of the time it works every time

The ones paying attention and on a budget would still use them. “The best” of anything is usually not cost effective.

Even before reducing the prices, they were already 2 to 3 times cheaper than equivalent alternatives from Anthropic’s ($3in, $15out) and OpenAI’s ($1.75in, $14out) at $1.74in and $3.48out. Now they’re around 10x cheaper.

Edit: Deepseek V4 Flash is the leading model on OpenRouter

so much for no one buying it

If you use it for Q&A, that’s a lot of tokens. If you use it to write software somewhat autonomously, it’s easy to go through a million tokens every few hours. Do that every day and you’ll be paying over $100 a month at that rate.

Not really, there are ways to count tokens before running an inference. Some providers make tokenizers public, so they even work offline. APIs also usually return rolling costs per response and have budget limits - though some could have more fine-grained limits.

Users who are surprised by the bill are usually not paying attention to each call, or using autonomous subagents, or a setup where they have little or no control to what is sent to the provider.

So the problem isn’t really the API provider, as much as it’s the tooling around it, which makes it too easy to overspend.

Yeah, I don’t even get the illusion of choice. At my address there’s only one provider offering broadband speeds and I’m not even in a remote area at all.

as someone from a 3rd world country, I was surprised to know a big part of the US was still relying on dial up in the 2020s.

Also, monthly quotas for home internet is abusive as fuck. Especially in times of video streaming.

There are plans of 1Gbps and 1.2TB of quota, so users may accidentally run out of internet for the whole month in 3 hours and, conveniently, need to pay them more.

Just imagine having clear water to drink. Like a toilet.

what’s your definition of a system’s language?

make sure to use post-quantum encryption algs

every website will start blocking VPN IPs, more so than what some already do, which is exactly what these cunts want

Users on annual Pro or Pro+ plans will remain on their existing plan with premium request-based pricing until their plan expires, however, model multipliers will increase on June 1 (see table).

holy shit, 9x the previous cost. which was already not great. I was on the fence about cancelling it, but thanks for making up my mind, MS