As LLMs mature and the model providers seek a return on their investment following huge spending on datacentres, it’s inevitable that the price of service for users was going to increase. We’ve already seen Anthropic try to remove Claude Code from their basic Pro plan because the traditional subscription model of “most people won’t max this out” (which used to work when there was a human in the loop) breaks down when agents are increasingly working autonomously or being driven by Ralph Loops.
Why 88% of Agent Pilots Die: The Infrastructure Readiness Gap Nobody Talks About