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I get that AI labs need to make money, but zero-warning price spikes are a nightmare for production builds
Seen a ton of posts today about the DeepSeek API price hike. Half the feed is doom-posting, the other half is explaining basic GPU economics. Honestly, I get the cost side. Sub-cent tokens were never gonna last forever. But what actually sucks is the zero-day notice. Dropping a vague "prices are going up significantly"