When The Bill Comes Due

Be wary of the cool new AI tools Anthropic and OpenAI are throwing—because you’ll eventually get stuck with the bill. (By the way, did you know there are cheaper options?)I think the point where it became clear to me that the AI bubble was hitting a wall came about two weeks ago, when Anthropic launched its Claude Design product.As someone who is interested in design and is trying to understand what the hell is happening with AI enough to have a thoughtful perspective on it, it struck my interest. I threw it a GitHub project and told it to extract the visual style. Then I ran a second command, and … suddenly, it was out of credits until Friday at noon. It was 1pm on a Friday.I prefer to actually understand the things I feel skeptical about, because it helps me catch things that highlight bigger underlying problems. And well, it doesn’t get any more blunt than that.Expect more stories like this. Recently, GitHub announced that it would change its billing for Copilot to usage-based…