Thank you for bringing that up, such a rarity for this place to remember the other 80% of the world.
replyAs someone from just such a country, DeepSeek 0731 was the first time I seriously started using an LLM for coding. All previous attempts were useless or ridiculously expensive.
Can't say the old prices felt "free", but it was affordable if you're careful with your cache hit rate.
The new pricing probably pushed it into the unaffordable territory for tasks where you can do without it. Probably will try opencode go if they don't also follow suite, or will have to go back to wetware.
It seems frontier labs want to sell Ferraris at Ferrari prices, when the mass market is for Hondas.
replyYou certainly don't need Fable to code up a basic web app, any more than you need a Ferrari to go grocery shopping.
There's a lot more competition over smaller models. Ferraris are frontier labs' main differentiating point when Hondas are increasingly open source and commoditized.
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