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Comment by alexfortin

4 hours ago

I freak out since months for Z.ai lite subscription, I use glm-5.3-flash every day for a ludicrous 8.5USD/month and it's as good as DS 4.1 flash, if not better.

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soniczentropy  2 hours ago

Almost exact same experience here, but I'm using Opencode's $10/month sub. It's perma set to DS 4.1 flash and I have anywhere from 3-5 agents going at a time. Never once hit a cap of any sort. I have absolutely no idea why people would be paying $200/mo when you can get perfectly good AI for $10 from multiple places

  • mapontosevenths  2 hours ago

    Do they train on your data? I don't necessarily want competitors to be able to just ask it to make a clone and have it do so from memory next month.

    • sieve  39 minutes ago

      Software has rarely been the moat. Or file formats. You have always been able to reverse engineer them. The problem, always, has been network effects.

      I can build an entire, fairly useful, spreadsheet app over a weekend. But can I send my "expenses.cells" files to my accountant? Will it work with the Excel/Google docs he uses?

      AI can build or reverse engineer anything as long as you are motivated enough to do it.

    • byzantinegene  42 minutes ago

      I don't see why that is a concern when decomps and recomps are already blooming, they can copy your app down to the atom.