The End of Subsidized Inference: Surviving the New Era of Hybrid AI
In recent years, the AI-driven software development ecosystem has lived in a “bubble of abundance.” Large Language Model (LLM) providers like OpenAI and Anthropic offered flat-rate, “all-you-can-eat” subscription models and subsidized inference at a loss to capture market share. Building software agents simply meant chaining prompts and making unlimited calls to cloud APIs without worrying…