The End of All You Can Eat AI

For about two years, we’ve all been reaching for the biggest hammer on the wall because someone else was paying for the nails. If you were on a subscription, you grabbed the biggest, baddest model on the menu and used the crap out of it. Two hundred dollars a month for work that would have cost thousands on the meter. It rounded to free.

Then a new model showed up for roughly fifteen minutes.

It wasn’t covered by anyone’s subscription. It was priced by the token. And Rob immediately saw something much bigger than a product launch. The migration everyone assumed would be painful, moving millions of people away from all you can eat subscriptions, suddenly had a simple answer. Just make the newest, smartest model a premium experience. Checkmate. The buffet doesn’t disappear. You just have to decide whether the lobster is worth paying for.

Justin made the exact mistake he told himself he wouldn’t make. He tried it anyway. He handed the model a sprawling request to audit an entire codebase and walked away. It came back with nearly twenty legitimate findings, from accessibility improvements to a legal disclosure that referred to the company as a corporation instead of an LLC. More importantly, it handled a level of independent work he wouldn’t have trusted another model to do. His reaction afterward said everything: “I wish I hadn’t tried it.” Because once you’ve seen what the next generation can do, you can’t unsee it. But if using it costs six or seven thousand dollars a month for one developer, “always use the best model” stops being a habit and starts becoming a business decision.

Whether you’re building with AI every day or just trying to make sense of where it’s all headed, this conversation is a good reminder that the technology isn’t the only thing changing. The business model is too. Give it a listen and see where Rob and Justin think it all leads.