I have several $200 subscriptions as a developer/founder. I used to blow through all of their limits when the limits were quite high. As I progressively learned the limitations, and what to make of them to get useful results, I may be left with 50% of weekly usage still unused. Some weeks it's even more.
And yes, when I get a crazy idea and want to experiment, harness will plow through multiple accounts + openrouter budget in 3 days. But such crazy experiments are rare, they're not 'normal' usage.
Probably reinforces that we’ve already surpassed the frontier threshold for LLM usability in software development and can now focus on cost and personalization. To make a comparison, no one is making a better machine vision app for hot dog classification - we hit diminishing returns 10 years ago on that front.
But also scary for both investors and the working class: AI companies want to facilitate the concentration of capital even further into the hands of the ownership class. Will they succeed?
Developers very rarely blow their limits, except when they're experimenting on purpose.
Most non-developers are out of tokens by the half of the week, and need to use usage credits for the remainder.
To me there is clearly a better target demographic for AI.